Knoxville, Tennessee

In July 1947, a resident identified in the newspaper as Mr. Presley, of 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, photographed what the Knoxville News-Sentinel called a "Flying Saucer" while using the last frame on a roll of film he had been shooting of his family and house. The newspaper reported this was the first time such an object had been photographed over Oak Ridge, and noted that many residents had previously reported seeing "the things." The FBI Knoxville Field Office forwarded two photographs and a photostatic copy of the newspaper clipping to FBI Headquarters under Knoxville File 65-11, categorized as Internal Security.