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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.
“The Pentagon”4 pages
102 Center Street, Oxford, called 11:35 p.m., May , bright light Nease ___ Winterrowd __ Tele. Room_ H · ST- POftM - M • • Office Memorandum . uN1TEn sTATEs GovERNMENT TO Mr. A. H. Belmon DATB:Ma y fl-~ 1956 Tolson __ Nichols __FROM :Mr. L. H . Boardman __ lj Belmont __ SUBJECT ~ .FLYING DISC OBSERVED OXFORD, PENNSY.LVANIA MAY 4, 1956 '-/1 1 'fl I Mr. Thom Ga.mble, Pennsylva.nia, telephone ll??R, 1956, and advised that he had just observed a traveling about 2000 feet in the air toward Baltimore. He last saw it at the place he uxis calling the Bureau from which uxis 121 Hodson Street, Oxford, Pennsylvania. He described the object as a solid, bright, yellow light, visible from all directions which he described at one point as being more than twice as bright and twice as big as the headlight of an automobile and another time as twice as bright as the evening star and it was impossible to persuade him to describe it more specifically. He said the object made no noise and that dr first it uxi.s traveling overhead about as fast as his automobile but then it speeded up and he could not keep up with it although he uxis 1 traveling at Bo miles per hour. He said that two of his buddies in the 'barroom where he had first observed the object had also observed it--Cectl Pew and Raymond Dixon. He said he had tried to call Civil Defense headquarters , ~f 0 ,11,,.,,,~J.,;>t in Baltimore but no one was on duty. 13-Jdes rY!!f,1-ed- ,111. id c.,.'- •r ·-.,.4. / ,. "",·.,." -rli o ').114:a J ~ - - ~I .e. ACTION: CaptainE. c. Brown, OSI, was advised. 1 MAY 8 1956 -cc - Mr . Belmont Mr. Branigan
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.