# Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Oppenheimer and UFOs

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.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2023
- By: Library Of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661305/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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