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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 008

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 217 pages · text from the file's own layer

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 the matter . IDJrSON was questioned concerning the position that the Bureau
of Aeronautics had taken and he remarked that he did not believe that this( s pertinent. ter further questioning , he subsequently stated that the
Bureau of Aeronautics ras of the belief that this was a matter for ONI.
mrrsoN stated that be 11unof.ficially11 became interested in the
matter and at the invitation of Admir 1 OWLES,. he went to South Berwick,.
Maine,. where he spent 7/24,25,26/54 in the residence of Admiral KNQ;iLES.
RUrSON stated that he infonned Admiral S UCEK, his superior in the Bureau
of Aeronautics, that he was going to visit Admiral KNO!JLES.
IIDTSON stated that inasmuch as KNOWLES had received no response
from the Government concerning this matter, he began reading books on
flying saucers . HUTSON au.vised that during the ti.me that he was a house
guest of Admiral O','ILE,S,. there was also pres t ER • ITH, a Physicist
of the Canadian Government rho was also interested in flying saucers .
HUTSO stated that ITH was at KN<l'IIES I residence With bis family and was
there in an 'lmofficial capacity.
HUTSON advised that during his stay, he and SUTH had various
intervie ,s with Mrs . AN and had had contact •th the II outer space" through
rs . SW. • Du.ring the interview with Mrs. SWAN and the contact with 11 outer
space, 11 HUTSON stated that they sat in a group and he observed Mrs. S1
writing messages that she was receiving from someone in 11outer space . 11
ccording to HUTSON, S informed him that tbe people from 11 outer space"
could use her eyes and ears to see and hear . According to SW , this is
accanplis.bed by t e use of a mechanical device an all conversations are
recorded by the people in "outer space . 11 HOTSON indicated as an example
as to how mess ges ere relayed, be stated that he asked Mrs . S AN a
question which s aa to relay to the people in "outer space" and before
she had ti.me to relay the question., she began writing the answer down to
b:is question on paper.
HUI'SON stated that S ,AN in.formed him that whenever she was to
have contact ,nth the people in "outer space, 11 she ou.ld get a buzzing
sound in her left ear to indicate that they were "on the line . " HUTSON
stated that Mrs . complained to the people in 11 outer space'' that
this buzzing sound gets very annoying and painful to her ear . She al.so
stated that the essages had been caning since ay 27, 19.54, and ould come
at all times of the night and consequently she was losing a great deal of
sleep. According to HUTSON, s . AN arranged a schedule With the people
in 11 outer space" so that the messages would not interfere with her sleep .
HUTSON advised that a schedule was arranged between S l and the people
in "outer space 11 that she ,10uld receive messages on the following schedule:
8:00 in the morning, 12 noon, 6: 00 in the evening, every day of the eek.
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