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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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  • p. 42 …Pentagon thought the Russians had beaten the U.S. to space operations. " Now, the rest of…
  • p. 94 …TO PRE ENT THEIR INFORMATION "TO THE PENTAGON" A THEY HOPED TO .IB II SO ONE…
  • p. 151 …of the nclo ure, to the Director, Office of ecial lnve tigation , The Pentagon, The In…
October 12, 1
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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
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