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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.
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• ; ;,AN~• FORM NO. 84 • • • : . ' . Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATB: 6/2/54TO DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, 0 (62~) s. CES S GMISCELLANEOUS - INFO TION CONCERNING This interview is predicated upon a telephone call received by SAC L. L . UG on 7/29/5'4 fr J01I:";,~~n··so , Security Officer, Bureau of Aeronautics , U. S. Navy Department. On the same date JOHN HlfrSON was interviewed in Room 2912, Main Navy Building. Also present during the interview was Commander L. T. UISTON, USN. HtJrSON and M.c UISTO furnished t he i'ollowing information: / They advised that the Office of Naval Intelligence had forwarded a file to the Bureau of Aeronautics 1'7ith enclosures hich had been received ~u•"C:-~ifrom retired A • al HERBERT B. Oil.LES of South Berwick, ccord- ing to HUTSON d cQUISTO , KNO,~ resic.e d near Mrs. who had been receiving messages through to t transmission. S :AN approached KNO and advised him that "flying saucers" ere here to help mankind. Information received by HUTSO indicated that KNO;n:.ES became interested in the messages receiva:ilby r s . S iAN and felt that the matter should be investigated by the Government . HUTSO advised that KNO,n.ES ote to Admiral PEY, Director of Naval ntelligence, on 6/1/54 enclosing some of the messages received by Mrs . SWAN. Receiving no reply to his original communication, KNO /LES again wrote ONI on 6/7/54. HUTSO advi ed th at the first letter that KNO fLES W11ote to ONI cont· ed information that Mrs . S AN ,,as receiving messages through thought control fran "outer space" and wrote them down as she received them. The letter, according to HtrrSON, stated that r s . SWAN would write without any effort on her part and would write continuousl for four or five hours at a time tbout getting tired. He stated that ONI had in their possession the transmissions or messages that had been received by s . S • HUTSON stated that ONI bad advised that in the absence of any ( definite evidence of' conversations, they ould do nothing in the matter. He also 'stated that the Bureau of Aeronautics took no official action in CAG : jfa f OED • 150 ED-15.0 1- ~2 . -109 1 54 -
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.