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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. 163 …We -read, "The angels (space-men) of God met him and when Jacob saw them he…
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he lat sentence i extre ely in, re ,in . The r orter claims th t
vhen he p ce- men rose th~ ·heelo rose ~ith t e . That is exac ly
what a person of an unmcchanical a e wolds y . Men can mo v e , bu t not
an ob·ect . o they deocribe the men a~ carrying the ships ith th m.
e , of co re ·old sa the o po ite, n mely hat the heels o p ce
h i ps carrie the s ace - men .
The" hirlin heels " are de crib d as" 11 of eyes" , in other wo ,
ful of round openings port- holes , or power outlets , "all around and
within ''• This de cription a a in t llies with observations and photo
gra h made recently.
The pace - ships are described as 11 d rting to and fro , li ke the flash
of li htnin " (Ezk . 1) . " fuen they wen the went in any of their
fo di ections ii ~o u ning a the ent. In hateve direc ·on
the ront wheel ( or hip) faced , the others followed without turning
they ent" . Be aide desc:.:ibing their unbelievable neuverabili ty
11 • i hou ~ rnin ', hi al 0 0 ee to cl im t they fle1 in or
tion , ollo ing leade ( lso ee Ezk . 10: 9) .
The fuel 0 a.er or t. ef:'e pace - hi s fo d in he middle of e
IIpace- hi . It is de cribed AS ... ire be een the hirlin heels "
(Ezk . 16 . 6) . "I the midst there ! s something that looked like bu n -
ing co ls 0 fire, lik torches mo in 0 and fro, nd he fire asbr· h , and OU 0 the ire ent forth ligh ning" ( zk. 1) .
And now there follows det il hich is the very cme of veracity .
"Over he head o ...he livin ere 1 e (s ace - en) there as he lie
ness of a firmament (the protective canopy o er a pilot ' ead) shin
ing like crystal (transp rent gla s ), read out above their head 11
(Ezk. 1) . This "glas lobe" ha lso been obse ve on the "fling
cer' of tod y and ho to a hed . I also ee tha lyin orde s
re iven by r emote control via r adi o or wireless . A voice is said
to come II ro above the fir rnent (canopy) over heir heo. s " . It ie
lso cl • ed b 11· biblic 1 re o • er tha part o thees a ~-ships
i collapsible and other part r etractable . The 1 tter is perhap
the central turre which will be de cribed la er .
In fli h t these II hirling wheels " ive of muo·c ( ev . 4 : 8) . This
henomcnon h s been re orted in the holy books of othe f ith much
o der han our o ·m. " I ' s like he sound of ny ter , like the
thun e of the .Almigh y a sound o t u ult like the sounds o ho "
(Ezk. 1 : 24 - 3 : 13) . Th woJ:d "hot" is imper an t o kee in mind b -
c use it refers no do b to he g eat n mber o th se ace- h"ps fly
ing o e he . Th ·nPigni hich ee to b on he ou r su ace o
the pace - whips are recogniz ble a cherub (a humorou or hould "e
y "human II ouch) , t h face of a man , lio , and an e le (Ezk. 1) .
Thees.ace - his re ive orders o pa rol he e rth "Go and pa rol
he e rth 11 (Zech. 6) .
n the basis of vhat 1 ha e lear1ed , ce eve in crip re no
re nder dable an cce ble . Enoch, i is r orte , en o
noth r world wi bout dying (Heb . 11 : 5) , as erhap Moses did lso .
Jacob thou ht he had vision 1hen he II la de set p on the
e rth and beheld rigel or e - n , cending and de cendin on i"
( en . 28) . The ln de bi y s let don from s ce- shi for
ome urpose or o her . Sp en had artic l ar inter s t in Jacob
it seems , or on a 1 •r occ sion he 1 d ith one o them the
ace- n only l~ying i h J cob ntil time for he ce-
to go , whPrcup on he a tially par~Jyzed Jacob ( Gen . 2) . It ls int
sting to no e th ts 1 e - men 1 ~, y ppeer nroun sunset , du ing he
nigh or t Re . ThJ..·0•1 h . ome hi rJ - inrl - like a ion Eli ah d •
Rl!•"f\1' rl jnt. e vi a ly·n chariot " (II Kin 2 : 11) .II

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