FBI 62-HQ-83894 Serial 153 — 1949 "Flying Disks" Memo (Cuneo / SAC San Antonio)

Official title: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153
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Released by DOW
5/8/26
Case ID
62-HQ-83894
Source URL
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Our research summary

Serial 153 — short fragment of an FBI memo on 'Flying Disks' Internal Security-R from SAC San Antonio dated July 26, 1949, mentioning a Galveston News article on the Young Men's Business Club of Alexandria, Louisiana planning a flying-saucer convention, plus telephone-call records of Ernest Cuneo (NYC) reaching out to Mr. Hoover and Mr. Ladd in July 1949 about a California flying saucer.

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Prior disclosure: Partial

Likely overlaps with FBI Vault content for 62-HQ-83894; serial-level granularity matches the case file partially posted there.

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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 1947T.

                 Photostatic copy of newspaper clipping appearing
                 in the Knoxville News-Sentinel concerning these
                 "f£lying saucers."         '
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                    RAPHED AT OAK ofRIDhisGEfamily and
                     apped several pictures
              8 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, the other after-|
                                     d, noticinghe had ond
                            film ‘left on the roll, he tw
                            and snapped it for a picture of
                            the mountain.
                              He had the roll Geveloped, and
                                                 that las!
                             look what he got on tryi
                             shot! Now don’t start   ng t
                             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.


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