65 hs1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Serial 153

Summary

FBI Headquarters serial from the Knoxville file concerning reports of flying saucers over the Oak Ridge area of Tennessee in July 1947. The enclosure list records two photographs of reputedly flying saucers seen at Oak Ridge and a photostatic copy of a Knoxville News-Sentinel clipping. The newspaper article describes how resident R. V. Presley photographed an unusual object near 218 Illinois Avenue, calling it the first such photograph over Oak Ridge. The record is filed under internal security classification.