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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.
• ~ • . . . . ... . ' •. .. I .,.-·. • t ... ifFO 62-0 According to s. SVIAN, these 11bells 11 or 11flying saucers" would appear over many nations of the world during the latter part of August 1954, and would come close enough to the earth so that they could be seen by man and that they in turn would be able to see people on the street. I HUTSON stated that Admiral KNO n.ES wrote a letter to G.ARET CHASE SM.ITH, Senator fran Maine, concerning this information, who forwarded the information to the Secretary of Defense and copies were sent to the Anny, Navy, and Air Force . According to HUTSON, KNOWLES also wrote a letter to the President of the United States. HurSON stated that none of the persons involved in this matter were interested in publicity. He stated that he would be willing to assist the Bureau in the investigation of this matter if the Bureau desired , ina~ch as he believed Mrs . S tAN and Admiral KN07lLES had confidence in him. HUTSON described s. FRANCES S ¥'. as being of middle-class cir cUlllstances, having a very modest hane with furniture below middle-class. He stated that she has no more than a high school education, if she has that. He considered her to be a very simple minded person, religious, a student of the Bible , and one who has studied spiritualism and other thought control systems. ~ The above information is being made available to the Office of Special Invesitgations , United States Air Force, and no further action is being taken by this office. - 4 -
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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.