Documents / Official release
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.
“The Pentagon”14 pages
• • .. , Letter to Di rector June 8, 1954 which TRUMAN BETHURUM had with a crew of assumed space explorers under the supervision of a ravishing woman col!Dl1andant in the Nevada desert. The article also reflects that TRUMAN BETHURUM allegedly was aboard flying saucers on eleven occasions~ At the bottom of the first page of issue number 15 there appeared in what ~x. EICKHOFF stated was the handwriting of TRUMAN BETHURUM the statement "This is a true story, a factual experience -- TRUMAN BETHURUM." The above mentioned article in ''Valor• also reflected that TRUMAN BETHURUM is 55 years of age and that his resid~nce address is 519 North Gertruda Avenue, Redondo Beach, Calit'ornia. Mr. EICKHOFF also had with him a letter addressed to TRUMAN BETlilJRUM from WILLIAM GILROY of the Saucers Resear ch Foundation, which letter re flected that that organization was holding a three-day convention June 4, 5 and 6, 1954 at the Carth.cy- Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and that it had invited TRUMAN BETHURUM to this convention t o say a few words concerning his experience. GILROY was identified in this letter as business manager of Criswell Predicts Your World of Tomorrow, 1922 North Highland, Hollywood 28 , California. Mr. EICKHOFF reiterated that he felt IETHURUM1 s story, if true, should be given wide publicity, but that if the story was false , t hen he should be prosecuted f or fraud. He stated that he first took bis in formation to the Air Force in the person 0£ Lieutenant Col onel JOHN - O•mmA orTr"i'gfi'E=Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, whom EICKIDFF visited persona.lJ.i.j.t 01 M'AID.1 s home in Fairborn, Ohio, on Sunday> 6-6-~u. llCKHOFF indicated that he asked Colonel 0 1 .MARA if there were such things as flying saucers and if IETHURUM' s story could be true, and he said O'MARA denied that there was such a thing as a flying saucer and indicated to him that DONALD E. KEHOE, the author of "Flying Saucers in Outer Space" was a fraud and that information is available in Washington that KEHOE is a fraud. He said he was advised, however, by Colonel 0 1 MARA that the Air Force could take no action with respect to BETHURUM or WILL IAMSON. EICKHOFF continued that it was his intention to aid in the promotion of a meeting for BETHIBUM in Cincinnati. He advised that the original meeting schedul ed for June 11 had been cancelled, and that he felt this meeting had such important information for the people as a whole t hat he was going to make every effort to make the meeting one of national - 3 -
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.