Battelle

Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the May 1949 Rogue River, Oregon daylight disc sighting, showing a clear late-afternoon Oregon coast scene at the river mouth near Elephant Rock with a small fishing boat and a figure raising 8-power binoculars toward a thin silvery coin- or pancake-shaped disc hanging obliquely in the sky, the disc bearing a small vertical fin on its trailing edge and a wrinkled dirty-looking rim with no wings or engines; rendered in muted warm 1949 Kodachrome film character, with a clipped inset of two Battelle Special Report #14 line-sketch views of the finned disc and a note that the Air Force "kites" explanation was refuted because the winds blew west to east, and restrained cool-steel tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification DD daylight disc, five witnesses including two NACA Ames technical employees, sourced to Battelle Special Report #14, the AFOSI investigation, and Bruce Maccabee, status Unexplained.

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Oregon Sightings

1949: The Rogue River Disc — Aeronautical Laboratory Employees, Oregon

Published: June 24, 2013 | Updated: August 27, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1949: The Rogue River Disc — Aeronautical Laboratory Employees, Oregon Late on the afternoon of May 24,...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the March 1950 Stuttgart, Arkansas airline-pilot UFO sighting, showing a night sky over flat Arkansas rice country with a 1950 Chicago & Southern Airlines twin-engine DC-3 in silhouette at altitude while a flat circular disc about 100 feet across passes nearby and slightly above, a brilliant blue-white beacon pulsing at its top and a ring of nine to twelve oval portholes glowing soft purple along its underside, the two pilots distant and unidentifiable in the cockpit; rendered in cold grainy low-saturation 1950 silver-gelatin night film character, with a clipped line-diagram inset of the disc's porthole ring and top beacon plus geometry annotations, and restrained purple tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, two witnesses an airline captain and a USAF Reserve captain, sourced to Blue Book and Battelle Special Report 14 Unknown 11, status Unexplained Blue Book Unknown 671.

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Arkansas Sightings

1950: Pilots observe fast-moving, disc-shaped UFO

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: Airline Pilots Observe a Fast-Moving Disc — Stuttgart, Arkansas A little after nine-thirty on the night...

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Single panel intelligence dossier image for the July 31 1948 Indianapolis domed disc sighting rendered in muted late-1940s color showing a clear morning over a row of modest 1940s frame houses in south-central Indianapolis with telephone wires and summer trees and the sun low in the east, a man at a west-facing window and a woman at an adjacent window of the foreground house looking up, and high in the western sky a single matte white domed disc shaped like a rounded coolie hat distinctly wider than tall in a roughly three-to-one ratio with a shadowed area on its upper right opposite the eastern sun and a faint spin shimmer crossing on a flat straight west-to-east path, with HUD overlays marking the domed disc and its 3:1 dimensions, the matte white body and upper-right shadow indicating a solid object, the straight and level silent horizon-to-horizon path, the estimated 2000-foot altitude and roughly 1800 mph witness-geometry speed, the DD daylight disc classification, the two witnesses Mr and Mrs Vernon Swigert, the USAF Blue Book Special Report 14 Battelle Unknown No 8 source, and the Unexplained status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Indiana Sightings

1948: Domed Disc Seen over South Central Indianapolis

Published: October 24, 2012 | Updated: August 24, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1948 Indianapolis UFO: The Vernon Swigert Domed Disc Sighting At twenty-five past eight on the morning of...

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Battelle

1949: The Rogue River Disc — Aeronautical Laboratory Employees, Oregon

1950: Pilots observe fast-moving, disc-shaped UFO

1948: Domed Disc Seen over South Central Indianapolis

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