65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153
Official description
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
✦ AI summary
This is an FBI Central Records Center document, Knoxville File #65-11, filed under FBI Headquarters Case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 153, Section "Internal Security - X". The report concerns "flying saucers" observed over the Oak Ridge, Tennessee area during July 1947, during the wave of nationwide UFO sightings that summer near the sensitive Oak Ridge nuclear facility. The enclosures listed to the Bureau consist of two photographs reputedly showing the "flying saucers" seen at Oak Ridge, plus a photostatic copy of a newspaper clipping from the Knoxville News-Sentinel covering the same sighting. Most of the document's pages are the actual photographic and clipping enclosures (image-only, no OCR text), rather than narrative report text, so the extractable text layer is limited to the cover sheet, routing stamps, and a short caption describing the enclosures. No further investigative findings or explanations are present in the machine-readable text.
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
▸Transcript(9 of 9 pages legible)
[PAGE 1] FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class I Case# Sub Vol. Serial # 0062 83894 1 153 ONLY 8/11/1274168 [routing/barcode markings] RRP003 IXGA [PAGE 2] 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." [PAGE 3] [illegible — handwritten/marginal notation] [PAGE 4] [No OCR text — image-only page, likely photograph enclosure] [PAGE 5] [illegible — handwritten/marginal notation] [PAGE 6] [illegible — handwritten/marginal notation] [PAGE 7] [No OCR text — image-only page, likely photograph enclosure] [PAGE 8] [illegible — fragment] [PAGE 9] [No OCR text — image-only page, likely newspaper clipping enclosure]
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo
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