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FBI File 62-HQ-83894 Serial 153: "Flying Saucers" Photographed Over Oak Ridge, Tennessee, July 1947

In July 1947, W.R. Presley of 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, photographed what the Knoxville News-Sentinel called a flying saucer. Presley had been photographing his family and house and used his last frame on a shot of a nearby mountain; when the roll was developed, a bright circular object appeared in that final image. The newspaper reported it as the first time a flying saucer had ever been photographed over Oak Ridge and noted that the picture had "all of Oak Ridge talking." The FBI Knoxville Field Office forwarded two prints and a photostatic copy of the newspaper clipping to FBI Headquarters under an Internal Security file.

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62-HQ-83894 VOLI SERIAL 153 ONLY

## FBI CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER

## HQ HEADQUARTERS

| Class/Case #   | Sub   | Vol.   | Serial #   |      |
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| 0062 83894     |       | 1      | 153        | ONLY |

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Declassification authority derived
from FBI Automatic Declassification
Guide, issued May 24, 2007.

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## 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."

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