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Film, Video Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Oppenheimer and UFOs

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Title

  • Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Oppenheimer and UFOs

Summary

  • In the late 1940s, reports of UFOs and "flying saucers" became an American cultural obsession. Movies such as "Invaders from Mars" (1953), "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" (1956), and other popular media capitalized on the mainstream fascination. Even people like former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt were intrigued by the reports of flying saucers. After interviewing a pair of pilots on her television program who reported a UFO sighting, Roosevelt received written material from a fringe group that believed UFOs were piloted by interdimensional beings. Roosevelt wrote to physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in May of 1950, asking what he thought of UFOs. Here is what he had to say.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2023-07-07.

Notes

  • -  Joshua Levy.
  • -  Recorded on 2023-07-07.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2025661305

Online Format

  • video
  • online text
  • image

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Manuscript Division. Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Oppenheimer and UFOs. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07, 2023. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661305/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Manuscript Division, S. B. (2023) Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Oppenheimer and UFOs. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661305/.

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Manuscript Division. Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Oppenheimer and UFOs. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07, 2023. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2025661305/>.