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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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TO L . V. Boardman DATBt April 13, 1956 Bc,ard 111111 n __ Nichols __ Belmont - l:larbo -- Mohr ___ ROM. 1 Parsons - Rosen- Tamm·-- Sizoo ___ l'uu.crrowd _ ltTBJBCT: SYLVIA L . ICHARDS Tele . Room _ GS-5 , Name (Jheck Unit HoHorran __ Gandy - -EOD 4 - 14- 4? On April 9, 1956, Miss Richards was interviewed con cerning her oighting of an unusual object about dawn April 6, 1956, while driving on ute l near Henderson, North Carolina, with her fiance , Joseph L . orris , Jr., an eml)loyee of the National Security Agency. S was interviewed ·for additional details in this matter on Apr 12, 1956, by Supervisor Mossburg . Miss Richards reviewed memorandum dated A,pril 10, 1956, from YI. G. Eame to Ur . Nichols prior to being questioned or any other details which might be of aS!istance to the Air Force in this matter. She advised she had seen the object for only a few seconds, that it was still dark when she observed it, although it wa near daylight on April 6 , 1956. She stated when daylight came she observed the sky to be cloudy and it started raining approxi - mately 30 minutes after she had observed the object . She recalled the object had approached their car on the driver ' s side from straight ahead at a height which she thought to be Jess than 25 feet . She was unable toe timate the speed of the object . She described it as being oval shaped, being very bright and having a light blue color. It made no sound that she could hear. She advised her fiance would be able to state exactly where they had observed the object in North Carolina, inasmuch as he was familiar with that area. She was unable to recall any additional pertinent information. ACTION: There i enclosed a letter to the Office of Special Investigations in this matter. Enclosure EllM:ss CC: LBUichols ossburg 20 (5) l LVBoardman AJiBelmont
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.