Documents / Official release
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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Ojfic;~~Memo& dum. UNITED STA- GOVERNMENT
TO HR. NIOHOLS~~ DATE: 4-10-56
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SUBJECT: stiYIA L. RICHARDS Parsons _ _
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Miss Rtchards on 4/9/56 reiorted the following rather Gao d , - -- ~
unusual occurrence which is in the I Flyi g Sauct1r 11 category.
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On 4/5/56 Miss Rich rds left Washington by car with her
fiance, Joseph L. Morris, Jr. (employee of National Security Agency),
to go to Morven, North Carolina to meet the orris family. Around
5 a. m. on 4/6/56 as dawn was breaking and while driving on Route 1
north of Henderson, North Carolina, the pair was startled by what
appeared to be a round low-flying object coming directly towards
the car . The object appeared to pass over the car and iss Richards
turned to see it appear to speed up and then veer off out of sight.
She and Mr. Morrts both felt they had seen something unuaual which was
difficult to explain and certainly did not appear to be an optical
illusion.
Miss Richards stated the object as she saw it appeared
round, was spinning and was bright as though containing a series of
lights in a 2ig-zag pattern. The object appeared to be fl ying very
low as it came towards them, moving at great speed and gaue of/ no
particular sound. The object, to the best of her belief, was at
least as wide a the highway and appeared no more than two to four
feet in thickness.
Miss Richards, who is one of our best employees, stated
hereto/ore she has placed little credence in ''.flytng saucer" stories
and felt that had she and her boyfriend not seen the same object she
would be inclined to think she had imagined something. She
appreciates that what they saw may have been some kind of optical
illusion; however, at the time the object appeared very real to them.
1 RECOMMENDATION:
If you agree, it ts recommended that this memorandum be
referred to the Liaison Section of the Domestic Intelligence Division
for possible referral to any int?rested military agencies.
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