Arquivo OVNI do FBI: fotos de Oak Ridge, 1947

[PAGE 1] [no legible text — blank or heavily redacted scan] [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] [Diagram: blank kraft-paper enclosure folder with diagonal fold creases and a faint illegible pencil mark near the center fold; handwritten file number "62-83891-153" and a stamp reading "ENCLOSURE" near the bottom.][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] [Diagram: blank reverse side of a photograph print, creased and cracked with age; handwritten file number "62-83894-153" near the bottom.][PAGE 6] [Diagram: black-and-white photograph of a residential street at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with single-story wartime housing, a utility pole, and distant hills; a faint curved white streak is visible in the sky above the house at right -- the reputed "flying saucer" referenced in the accompanying FBI report. Print heavily creased and scratched.][PAGE 7] [Diagram: blank reverse side of a photograph print, lightly creased; handwritten file number "62-83894-153" near the bottom.][PAGE 8] [Diagram: black-and-white photograph of the same Oak Ridge, Tennessee residential street (utility pole, single-story housing, hills beyond), with a bright round disc-shaped object clearly visible in the sky at upper right -- the reputed "flying saucer" referenced in the accompanying FBI report. Print heavily creased and scratched.][PAGE 9] [Diagram: blank reverse side of a photograph print, lightly creased; handwritten file number "62-83894-153" near the bottom.]