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.
“Office of Special Investigations”6 pages
October 12, 1 cut Dear Mi s Fillion: Your lett r of Octob r 5, 1956, with enclo ure, has been received. I ant to thank you for th intere t hlch prompted your rittng and for your very kind ords concerning my administra tion of this Bureau . The information contain d ln your letter d the enclosure does not fall within the inve tig tive jurisdiction of the Fm, and I am taking the liberty of forwarding copy of your letter, a well copy of the nclo ure, to the Director, Office of ecial lnve tigation , The Pentagon, The In pector hington 25, neral, D. C. partment of th Air rce, Sincerely yours, Copy of incoming and enclosure sent by form to The Ill$pector General, Department of the Air Force. FJH:jfm (3)
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.