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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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in on of the of the flying "flying which correspondent in California, and men did uppo- sent an stran e str nge It wa nd them for question if ou l oouldn.tt \ ous . not1- • Supday Febru· · 12 , 1956 . vprin field 1 'T,lMassachuse ts . Mr . J . Edgar Hoover , Federal Bureau of Investigat on , Wa hin on , D. C . o Dear Mr . Hoover: ! know that you are a very busy man bu o you suppose that you could enli t n me on the followin sub ect . Iy name is Richard E . Guertin and I am 15 years of age and am a student at Technical High School here Springfi ld , assachus tts . Recently I became very interested in most amazing dramas of our time , the phenomena saucers . In a book which I have just read, entitled saucers uncensored" written by arold T. Wilkins,the author t 11s of many c ses and sightings of flying aucers correspondent around the world have sent him . One story which he r ec ived from a tells the story of two men who supposedly c me from Venu went to Los Angeles journalist in March 1953 . These trange things hich mad omeone so suspicious that he se ly contacted the F . B. I . , which is supposed to have investigator to find out what was gong on , ut 1n ome\\ y th Venus an by u. ng tel pathic pov,er or some facu ty of prev sion not return to the office again . s id that the F . B. I . was never able to f ing . I on er if this story 1 true, and were real y notified . I know of you iere notified you II tell me anyt ng about th nci ent , but I ani ve y cur Could you possib y tell me if you were f1 d and if the story 1 true . I would appreciate hearin from you . Yours truly, - 0 Richard Guertin 196 College Street Springfi ld 9, Massachusetts .
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.