65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 008

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.

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Corre s p ondent submitted~ six-page rambling and partly
incoherent lett e r postmarked July 24, 1955, wherein she ;r~quests
a number of "F. B. I . men" to assist her in watching /of-- lying Jsaucers which she claims are real . She rem.arks she has previously
wrl en letters to the President, but that they have been ignored .
Bufiles reflect no record identifiable with correspondent .
RECOMJIEND.ATI O :
No acknowledgment of correspondent's letter in view of
her apparent ... disturbed condition .
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