Phoenix, Arizona

On September 11, 1947, Portland police officers and Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon, with witnesses describing it variously as elliptical, egg-shaped, and silvery, traveling at high speed. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of Al Jones Flying Company reported a flying wing-shaped object near Bethel, Alaska, approximately the size of a C-54 without fuselage, showing no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails; the Civil Aeronautics Administration station at Bethel reported no known aircraft in the vicinity.