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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, part of file 62-HQ-83894, gathers flying saucer correspondence and memoranda mostly from 1952, with some from 1954. It includes a Savannah River Plant sighting teletype, Hoover replies that send public letters on to the Air Force, a San Diego report on Borderland Sciences, and a laboratory exam of the scoutmaster Desvergers' cap that found no residue. It also covers instructions to refer disc reports to OSI and a 1954 Cincinnati matter involving Truman Bethurum.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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President
Grand Hotel
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Dear l!r . floodfill:
rour letter of June '80, 1 953, has been
received in JJr . Hoover 18 absence from the city and
I am ~aking the liberty of acknowledging it3 r~ceipt.
Your communica~ion will be brought to his
,..- atti!ntion promptly following his return to J1a..ahin.gton .
,, /- () $1,nce rely yours,
~'\·{\-~
O'~, Helen U. Oa ndy
Secretary _/
~ cc - Detroit, with cop~lin~.
cc-Cincinnati, with coev o/ lill'C"oming.
ATTENTIO' SAC: You are instructed to thorouglj;l..y,..
check your files in an effort to determine whethtpr ?'-
or not the Jlr. Steuenson referred to by corre,svo~e71,J,
has been interuiewed by an Agent of your office. ~You
should also furnish the Bureau any information-riJhichcn
might assist in clarifying the story set forth L:b-y'. ~
Wood/ill. Sulet results no later than July l!fJ"F,11~53::.0
under caption "llr . ,'I. S. Woodfill, President, Grand :::r;.
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NOTE: Although inquiries regarding such phefuz..meWa ~ 1 ~'~{1
Tolson- are being handled by the Air Force at -this p -,::::g:e ei,t V
Lodd-- time, it is believed desirable to check the sourc.e·-n .,,"l. ~
Nichols -
ee1moo,- of this rumor and following rec e ipt of replycg>rol!J, :::. ,
g:~f.== Cincinnati, refer correspondent's inquiry to'(J;he:·AJ,_r=Force.1 1
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~ ~·::~L:blt/~ d J~l;E:~;3 v.··. ~ Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.