1947-07-01 / Oak Ridge, Tennessee / unresolved
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.
Flying saucer photographed over Oak Ridge; appears as a bright, circular object in the sky in a black-and-white photograph taken by Mr. Presley while photographing a mountain with his remaining film exposure