Concepts / region

Oak Ridge, Tennessee (1947–1950s)

Oak Ridge, TN — site of the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory — appears repeatedly in the FBI 62-HQ-83894 case file as a location of photographic UFO evidence during the late 1940s and 1950s, when the site's nuclear-research mission made unidentified aerial objects there of acute investigative interest.