← Browse entities
Location

Portland, Oregon

4 declassified cases mention this, always in the body of the document rather than as an official record field. Documented incidents span 1947 to 1948.

2 agencies are involved: Department of War and FBI. The case files here include documents. None of the cases carry visible redactions.

Cases

File IDDateAgencyTypePages readOfficialExcerpt
DOW-UAP-D0971948Department of WarDocument44/45MentionedThis is the initial report on Project SIGN, sent on 23 April 1948 by Headquarters Air Materiel Command (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) to the USAF Chief of Staff, attention Director of Intelligence, over the signature of Colonel H. M. McC…
DOW-UAP-D1001947-1948Department of WarDocument236/245MentionedA 245-page dossier of Air Materiel Command / Directorate of Intelligence correspondence on the Air Force's 1947-1948 "flying disc" investigation (later Project SIGN); 237 pages are legible and the rest are blank or redacted scans. Most of t…
UFO incident summaries 1-100, Air Force, 1947-1948N/ADepartment of WarDocument183/209MentionedEarliest set of Box 7 "Check-List — Unidentified Flying Objects" case files (Authority NND 917033), dated from late June 1947 through 7 January 1948, the classic early wave of U.S. "flying disc" reports following the Kenneth Arnold sighting…
FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 4 (1947-1949)N/AFBIDocument149/214MentionedSection 4 of file 62-HQ-83894 covers October 1947 to July 1949 and shows the FBI settling into a policy of not investigating flying discs. It includes reports from Portland (a sighting of 11 September 1947) and Anchorage (a pilot's near-col…

Related entities

Entities that appear together with this one in the same declassified cases.