65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153

Official 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.

Key Findings

• →A civilian named W.R. Presley of 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, inadvertently photographed what was described as a 'flying saucer' over Oak Ridge in July 1947 while using the last frame of a roll of film.
• →Two original photographs were forwarded as enclosures from the FBI Knoxville field office to FBI Headquarters under case file 62-HQ-83894.
• →The Knoxville News-Sentinel reported the incident in July 1947, describing Presley's photo as the first time a flying saucer had ever been photographed over Oak Ridge.
• →One photograph shows a bright, circular luminous object in the upper-right portion of the sky above a residential Oak Ridge street scene.
• →The FBI filed the incident under 'Internal Security - X', indicating it was treated as a potential national security matter given Oak Ridge's status as a sensitive nuclear facility.

Extracted Entities