65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153
Key facts
- Document type
- Document
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- R01 · 2026-05-08
- Incident date
- not indicated
- Incident location
- N/A
- Pages legible
- 3/9
- VIRIN
- 260508-O-D0360-1014
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
FBI Central Records Center document, Knoxville File #65-11, filed under FBI Headquarters Case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 153, Section Internal Security - X, concerning reports of "flying saucers" observed over the Oak Ridge, Tennessee area in July 1947, amid that summer's nationwide wave of UFO sightings near the sensitive Oak Ridge nuclear facility. Enclosures to the Bureau include two photographs reputedly showing the flying saucers seen at Oak Ridge and a photostatic copy of a Knoxville News-Sentinel article reporting that Oak Ridge resident R. Presley, of 218 Illinois Avenue, photographed an unexplained object in the sky above the mountain near his home while finishing a roll of family snapshots; the article notes it was the first such photograph taken over Oak Ridge and had the town talking. The remaining pages consist of the photographic enclosures themselves, with no further narrative report text or investigative findings preserved in the legible record.
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
▸Transcript(3 of 9 pages legible)
[PAGE 1] O2- Ha- 2239+ VoL! Septac 15% ONLY {hl ill ili II | n | 1 [PAGE 2] KNOXVILLE FILE #65-11 RE: “FLYING SAUCERS" OBSERVED OVER OAK RIDGE AREA INTERNAL SECURITY - xX 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] [no legible text — blank or heavily redacted scan] [PAGE 4] KNOXVILLE WEWwsesey {NEL JULY 1947 ae Sere eter cine LYING SAUCER’ - OTOGRAPHED AT OAK RIDGE VV R. PRESLEY’ -24 snapped several pictures of his family and his house a’ 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, the other after- 4 noon and, noticing he had ong film “left on the roll, he tu | and snapped it for a picture off the mountain. He had the roll developed, and look what he got on that las shot! Now don’t start trying t explain it off. Just go ahead anc say what it looks like. Sure Sure. You're right. It is a Flying Saucer. A lot of folks have re- ported seeing the things. This. however, is the first time that one has ever been photographed over Oak Ridge. Mr. Presley says this picture has all of Oak Ridge talking. [PAGE 5] [no legible text — blank or heavily redacted scan] [PAGE 6] [no legible text — blank or heavily redacted scan] [PAGE 7] [no legible text — blank or heavily redacted scan] [PAGE 8] [no legible text — blank or heavily redacted scan] [PAGE 9] [no legible text — blank or heavily redacted scan]
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo