FBI file 62-HQ-83894, serial 153

Department of War · 9 pages · text by OCR

This FBI Central Records Center serial 153 from file 62-HQ-83894 comes from the Knoxville field office, file 65-11. It concerns "flying saucers" seen over the Oak Ridge area and is marked Internal Security - X. The enclosures sent to the Bureau were two photographs of reputed flying saucers seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in July 1947, and a copy of a Knoxville News-Sentinel clipping. The clipping reports that W. R. Presley photographed an apparent flying saucer over the mountain from his home.

Open the PDF at page 2 Original source ↗

KNOXVILLE FILE #65-11

RE: "FLYING SAUCERS" OBSERVED OVER OAK RIDGE AREA INTERNAL SECURITY - X

ENCLOSURES TO BUREAU:

Two photographs of reputedly "flying saucers" seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during July 1947.

Photostatic copy of newspaper clipping appearing in the Knoxville News-Sentinel concerning these "flying saucers."

Cited by

Cases discussed

The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
photographs of "flying saucers" seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during July 1947

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 9 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.