65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153
- Type
- Document, 9 pages
- Agency
- FBI
- Date
- N/A
- Place
- N/A
- Released
- Release 1, May 8, 2026
The government's description
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
Full text
Text taken from the war.gov PDF; 1 of the 9 pages are scans read by OCR software, so expect misread words. Blacked-out parts of the original stay blank, and pages with no readable words, like photos, are left out. Check anything important against the original.
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FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class I Case# 0062 83894 Sub Vol. Serial # 1 153 8/11/1274168 II II II II RRP003 1111111111 11111 IXGA ONLY
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• JQIOXVILLE FILE #65-11 RE: "FLYING SAOOll!S" OB.SERVED OVER OAK RIDGE AREA INTmNAL SIDURITY - X ENCLOOURE3 TO J31JREAU: Two photographs of reputedly "f]J'1ing saucers" seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during JulJr 1947. Photostat1o copy of newepa.per clipping appearing in the Knoxville Newa-Sentine1 concernin.g: these "flying saucers." , \ ., •
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KNOXVILLE NEWSeS the mountain. He had the roll developed, and look what he got on that las' shot! Now don’t start trying % explain it off. Just go ahead and 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.