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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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, • llr . rt. s. oodfil l Pre8ident Grand Hotel July 24, 1953 J/ackinac Island , Jlichigan l.oJ-'t~gq /.-];$Dear Jlr. "ood/ill: \)(\)·'34 \\t.COR Tour 1 et-te r of June 30, to "'Y attention upon ny return to ~ant to thank you Jo r making this to me . 1953, was brought the ci"ty, und I in/ornati.on available I ~ish to advise that the situation which you discuss in you r letter does not pertcin to any matter within the inuesttgatiue jurisdiction of the FBI . Obviously, there/ore, no representative of this Bureau conducted the interview with Jlr • .SteuenB0Tl wht.ch you descr i.be relat ~ue to 1 ·,t1 ying saucers . " Sincerel11 yours, J . Edcar Hoover John Edgar Hoouer Di rector Cincinnati Reurlet July 15, 1953. JJr. Woodfill 's letter of June 30,__ 1953J, stated that II JUL 2 8 1953 cc - NOTF: a farmer named Stevenson of Circleville, Ohi~, ih,ad reportedly seen a flying saucer c,, nd had been subsequent'Jy ~ teru iewed on the mat+er by representative of the FBI. ~ y r;- Woodfill desired to h;no1.p if this were true. , _ ~ en Bulet of ,Tuly 9, 1953, to him wc..s an "in-,(J/)sence" reply,Tolson Ladd __ containing,. a note for 6;..C, Cincinnati to d.eter'Rine the basis Nichols of the rumor. Cfncinnati letter of July 15, ~3, indicatesBehoonr Cle~- that Stevenso11 w,as 'linte.ruiewed on July 14, ~9~; at t hat timeGlavin Hul,o __ ~tevenson indicated that he hud been inter"iriewed on the Rosen Tracy __ subject by one Jack W, Grant of ColUJJlhJs, Ohio, who made the Gearty statement that he (Grant) hc,,d once been "checked" by the FBl.Mohr- Wi_nrerrowd _ Cincinnati ~!!/eeflect no prior interview with the farmer,Tele. Room Hollom11n who is Brucw enson , ,lural lloute 2, Circlevil.le, Ohio. Si200- Miss Gandy- J!L~:~ep~9~ • ~.,J q~
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.