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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- •-N ~ Offt_c~ Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT•TO ~' DATB: 5-5-56A. H. Belmon FROM J. H. Glascock SUBJECT: /4ING DI C OXFORD, P 'N May 4, 1956 OBSE VED SYLVA I I Reference made to memorandum r. artin to Ur . Belmont, May , 1956, indicating Thomas Gamble, 102 Center Street, Oxford, Pennsyluania, called at 11:35 p.m., May 4 , 1956, concerning a brtght ,light he had observed traveling toward Balt t mo re at an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet. Thts same tndivtdual telephontoally aau ised the writer 2:45 p. ay 5, 1956, his tru~ nae ts Billy Thoma vambtll and that his true residence ts 419 outh Broad Street, Ke nneth quare,Pennsyluania. Gambill desired t o know the results of any tnuestt gat ion conducted as the result of his previous call. It was pointed out to him that the Bureau was not at liberty to disclose such informa t ion. Bureau indices on Billy Thomas Gambill, limited to Pennsylvania, were searched with negative r esults. At 3 :35 p.m., ay 5 , 1956, Captain E . C. Brown, / OSI, was telephontcally advised at his residence. f CTION: This is for your informat ion. cc Belmont Branigan Glascock JHG:pat (4) Tolsoo-- ic:hols _ _ Boardman _ _ Belmonr __ Mason ___ Mohr ___ P sons __ Ro en ___ Tmm ___ Nease ___ Wi nterrowd _ Tele. Room _ Holloman-- Gan dy ___ -
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.