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

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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ENCLOSURE

KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL
JULY 1947

FLYING SAUCER'S MOTOCRAPHED AT OAK RIDGE
W. R. PRESLEY had snapped several pictures of his family and his house at 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, the other afternoon and, noticing he had one film left on the roll, he turned and snapped it for a picture of the mountain.

He had the roll developed, and look what he got on that last shot! Now don't start trying to 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 reported seeing the things. This, however, is the first time that one has…

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