Cases and themes

Police witnesses

Sightings reported by police officers, sheriffs and constables, often from patrol cars. 77 events, newest first.

1940s

Government11 Jul 1947

Twin Falls, Idaho 'flying disc' found and exposed as a teen hoax

A 30-inch metal disc with a plastic dome turned up in a Twin Falls yard during the 1947 saucer wave. An FBI agent alerted his office and Army officers flew in to take it, but police then said four local teenagers had confessed to building it from radio and phonograph parts as a prank.

Photo: Albert William Stevens, Public domain

Sightings4 Jul 1947

Portland, Oregon police and harbor patrol sightings

During the July 1947 wave, Portland police officers, a harbor patrol crew and residents reported groups of fast, wobbling disks over the city, with sheriff's deputies across the river in Vancouver, Washington, reporting more. Ruppelt summarized the reports from Air Force files.