1947.0704 Portland sightings

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On 4 July 1947, there was a series of sightings in Portland, Oregon involving various police officers and civilians.

 

 

 

 

 

Sections below:

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

For discussion of the Portland, Oregon sightings see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

2003

Bartholomew, Robert E. and Radford, Benjamin in their “Hoaxes, Myths and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 163 (in Chapter 12) of the Prometheus softcover edition.

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1967

Bloecher, Ted in his “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages I_8 (in Section I), III_15-III_16 (in Section III), IV_1 (in Section IV), Cases 227-231, 233-235, 239, 244, 248 (in Section V) of the privately published paperbound edition.

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1996

Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 of the Select softcover edition.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 1:A-K” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 319 (in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

2000

Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 2) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 19 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-46 (in Chapter 2) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

1997

Hesemann, Michael and Mantle, Philip in their “Beyond Roswell” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Michael O’Mara hardback edition.

1

1998

Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 2) of the Evans hardback edition.

1

1968

McDonald, James E in his prepared statement to the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects” on 1968.0729) as Case 19 at page 58 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

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1967

McDonald, James E in Ted Bloecher’s “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages viii-ix (in the Introduction) of the privately published paperbound edition.

2

1966

Olsen, Thomas M in his “The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 3_2 (in Chapter 3) of the UFOIRC spiral-bound edition.

1

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in Chapter 2, “The 1947 Flap”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at page 11of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1999

Randle, Kevin in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-17, 30-31 (in Chapter 2) of the Avon softcover edition.

6

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 2) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at page 36 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 31-32 of the Ace paperback edition, at page 20 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at page 13-14 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available online at:

http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm

1

2003

Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Numbers 16-20 on pages 7-8 of the PDF edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). Both editions are available online, respectively at the following links:

http://www.cufos.org/BB_Unknowns_1_7.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/bluebook/CufosBBUnknowns.doc

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1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 2) of the Belmont paperback edition.

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Other Material

Listed as Project Sign Incident Number 5, Project Sign Incident Number 7, Project Sign Incident Number 8, Project Sign Incident Number 9, Project Sign Incident Number 13, Project Sign Incident Number 14 and Project Sign Incident Number 15 in the microfilm records of Project Sign. The relevant case files are included on Roll Number 1 of the Project Sign microfilm collection, at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-39 (page 39 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-48 (page 48 of 716) and from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-59 (page 59 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-81 (page 81 of 716) and from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-101 (page 101 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-110 (page 110 of 716).

Listed as Project Blue Book Case Numbers 29, 30, 31, 32 on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 1. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB1-13 (page 13 of 1014) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 1 – at the link below from the page with the PID of NARA-PBB1-753 (page 753 of 1014) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB1-794 (page 794 of 1014).

Listed (without a Project Blue Book Case Number) on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,363. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of MAXW-PBB2-244 (page 244 of 1352) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,363 – at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-937 (page 937 of 1352) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-989 (page 989 of 1352).

http://www.bluebookarchive.org