travel from horizon to horizon in thirty seconds. A Chicago
housewife saw one "with legs."

The week of July 4, 1947, set a record for reports that was not
broken until 1952. The center of activity was the Portland, Oregon,
area. At 11:00A.M. a carload of people driving near Redmond saw four
disk-shaped objects streaking past Mount Jefferson. At 1:05P.M. a
policeman was in the parking lot behind the Portland City Police
Headquarters when he noticed some pigeons suddenly began to flutter
around as if they were scared. He looked up and saw five large disk-
shaped objects, two going south and three going east. They were
traveling at a high rate of speed and seemed to be oscillating about
their lateral axis. Minutes later two other policemen, both ex-
pilots, reported three of the same things flying in trail. Before
long the harbor patrol called into headquarters. A crew of four
patrolmen had seen three to six of the disks, "shaped like chrome hub
caps," traveling very fast. They also oscillated as they flew. Then
the citizens of Portland began to see them. A man saw one going east
and two going north. At four-thirty a woman called in and had just
seen one that looked like "a new dime flipping around." Another man
reported two, one going southeast, one northeast. From Milwaukie,
Oregon, three were reported going northwest. In Vancouver,
Washington, sheriff's deputies saw twenty to thirty.

The first photo was taken on July 4 in Seattle. After much publicity
it turned out to be a weather balloon.

That night a United Airlines crew flying near Emmett, Idaho, saw
five. The pilot's report read:

Five "somethings," which were thin and smooth on the bottom and
rough-appearing on top, were seen silhouetted against the sunset
shortly after the plane took off from Boise at 8:04P.M. We saw them
clearly. We followed them in a northeasterly direction for about 45
miles. They finally disappeared. We were unable to tell whether they
outsped us or disintegrated. We can't say whether they were
"smearlike," oval, or anything else but whatever they were they were
not aircraft, clouds or smoke.

Civilians did not have a corner on the market. On July 6 a staff
sergeant in Birmingham, Alabama, saw several "dim, glowing lights"
speeding across the sky and photographed one of them. Also on the
sixth the crew of an Air Force B-25 saw a bright, disk-shaped object
"low at nine o'clock." This is one of the few reports of an object
lower than t