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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 8) collects 1954 and 1957 memoranda, letters and teletypes on flying saucer matters. It includes a Cincinnati report on Thomas Eickhoff's concerns about lectures by Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, a Milford, Ohio sighting, and a Navy officer's account of Mrs. Frances Swan's claimed messages from outer space. It also records a 1957 Detroit interview with a former prisoner of war who described a circular vehicle that stalled a tractor engine in Germany in 1944.
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.
UNITED ST.t, TES GOVERNMENT · i TO Director, FBI DA'l'B : 8/2/54 SAC, Cincinnati (62-0)~ : ~NG SAUCE REPORT~ ~ CT, INFORMATION CONCERNING /~ RI' " ~?- Colonel J.M. SMITH, Deputy Director of Civilian Defense for Greater Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, ealled this ofrice on 7/23/54 to report that he had re- ce~ved a report of a flying saucer from Mr. CARL ,R. SER, Route 1, Milford, Ohio. Mr. KEYSER said that he could be reached at his resi ence which is two miles east of Milford, Ohio, on u. s. Highway 28. KEYSER reported to Colonel SMITH that both he and his wife, at approximately 2:40 p.m. on 7/23/54, had observed a silver cirou1ar or spherical shape in the sky which was located to the southeast of their residence, approximately forty-five degrees above the horizon. Colonel SMITH was advised that the report made by him was being referred to the appropriate officials of the United States Air Force. I have advised the local office of the Office of Special Investigations at Wright-Patterson Air Force 0£ the above.
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.