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.
“Los Angeles Times”2 pages
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Offiee -Memorandum • uNITEn sTATE GOVERNMENT
TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE : 8/15/56
{100-24442)
The following is being furnished to the Bureau for its
information 1n the event an inquiry should be received from the
Air Force:
On 8/14/56, Lt. LOUIS SAUTER and Sgt. CHARLES M. HOWARD,
4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron, Norton AFB, San
Bernardino, California, called at this office, accompanied by
Captain DAMON ECKLES ot the Air Intormati.on service.
Lt. SAUTER stated he had ~=~teletype from
his headquarters, retleot1ng that T B, 143.Q....Hat.teras
street, van Nuys, California, had reported that on 7/16/56, a
spherical vehicle had landed in his back yard, splitting a large
tree in two. On 7/30/56, this vehicle returned and on this
occasion some little green men emerged from the vehicle and invited
KITTREDGE to ride in their ship. He supposedly went up with them
for approximately 20 minutes.
Lt. SAUTER stated he had no additional information
except that KITTREDGB was believed to be employed in some minor
technical capacity for the Columbia Broadcasting System.
captain ECK.LBS stated he recalled that the incident
reported bJ KITTREDGE was presented on a CBS television newscast
about the time it oceurred, and that during the telecast, the split
tree was shown, and an interview was had with KITTREDGE. According
to captin ECKLES, the tenor of the comments by the t levis1on announcer
was that he placed little credence in the story, but was presenting
it tor what it was worth.
Lt. SAUTER stated that he believes the incident reported
bJ KITTREDGE to be utterly ridiculous, but, in accordance with
instructions from his headquarters, he must make some inquiry concerning
KITTREDGE in such a manner as not to result in any publicity indicating
an Air Force interest. He inquired it the FBI would conduct 1nveet1-
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'2 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.