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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.

  • p. 8 …H.-Stringfield, 7017 Britton Avenue, Cincinnati 27, Ohio, at which meeting there would be Mr. Stringfield…
  • p. 34 …On the first page of th1s "Newsletter " STRINGFIELD reportis that he had a priv talk with…
  • p. 36 …He advised that STRINGFIELD is director of this organization and is assisted by his wife, that…
  • p. 37 …GUNDERMAN continued that he believes STRINGFIELD is now afraid to proceed too much for fear the…
  • p. 38 …100-new (CIVILIAN RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS) regarding STRINGFIELD. This letter also contains informa tion concerning…
  • p. 40 …Box 1855 Copyright 1954 by Len H. Stringfield EXCLUSIVE: PRIVATE TALK WITH LT. COLONEL JOHN 0…
  • p. 49 …In a newsletter to be llsue4 Friday by the research bureau, Stringfield reported reauUa of a…
  • p. 50 …three discs Sunday at 5 p. m. STRINGFIELD SAID Cincinnati is sup posed to be a…
  • p. 53 …RESEARCH , INT~RPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Director 7017 Britton Avenue Cincinnati 27 , Ohio MISCELLANEOUS…
  • p. 55 …Tb.is source advised that STRINGFIELD is the Director of the organization and is assisted by…
  • p. 56 • •.... October 1, 1954 issue of the "Newsletter", supra, and also reports on STRINGFIELD 1 s interview…
  • p. 183 …According to STRINGFIELD, he has been interested in flying discs or objects for a number of…
  • p. 185 …She further speaks of events designated 11 0ROP Desert Ea" which STRINGFIELD knows nothing about. In…
  • p. 186 …SEARCH INTERPt ETARY FLYING OBJECTS EONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Om.ECTOR '1017 BRIT N AVENUE CINCINNATI 27…
  • p. 189 …Ohio Mar ch 19 , 1967 Dear Mr . Stringfield 1 This letter is to confirm and elaborate…
  • p. 191 …Leonard Stringfield C.R.I.F.o. Orbit 7017 Britton Avenfte Cincinnat i~# Ohio ...
  • p. 192 …Two autostats of letter to LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD from EVA REICH, M.D. dated3/19/57.
  • p. 193 …CIVILIAN RESE H v, J INTERPLANETAR ' OBJECTS LEONARD H~l STRINGFIELD, Di rector, 7017 Britlon Ave…
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