Where is Harry Truman's statement on flying saucers?

Greetings from the Truman Library,

Thank you for your question! We have been asked about that flying saucer clip several times--it seems to be posted in a few different places on YouTube. So far we've had no luck finding this film in our holdings. It appears to be some sort of press conference, but the words don't match any transcript that we have in Mr. Truman's Public Papers, which cover the public statements of President Truman while he was in office. That, coupled with how Mr. Truman looks in the film and the unknown curtain in the background, leads us to think it could be a post-presidential press conference from the 1950s or maybe early 1960s, which would explain why we can't find a transcript. If that's the case, President Truman gave many press conferences after he left office, and we don't necessarily have transcripts for them all, nor are they keyword searchable.

We recommend you contact the History Channel or whoever produced the original documentary that features this clip to find out their source of the footage.

On a related note, these other threads on UFOs and flying saucers may also be of interest:

• Seeking information regarding past & present UFO sightings
• Re: Seeking UFO documents cited by CNN
• Re: Info not in Deck Log. What other logs should I search?
• Re: I'm looking for Air Force link to Kenneth Arnold's 1947 "flying saucers" sighting.

And other related resources on the Archives.gov website:

• Project BLUE BOOK - Unidentified Flying Objects
• Do Records Show Proof of UFOs?
• Project Blue Book: Spotting UFOs in the Film Record