Rogue River

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: June 5, 2026

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