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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.
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-- - ; way. l waa a El~art was • Washington. 1ltnit.eb §tat.es 1ll.epartm.ent of Yustic.e lfi1s'oY«!&f.t1!Wd\\h0 ii\!IViW!ti ~ Richmond, V1rg nia January 11, 1957 D1 triot Commander 21st Di tr1ot Offic of Special Investigation Langley Air Fo!'o Base, V1rg1n1 RE I AERIAL PHENOMENON RE EARCH GROUP MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION C NCERNINO Dear Sirs Mrs. rgaref"lnunt, 7606 Sweetbrier Road, Richmon, Virginia, adv1 ed this offic on January 2, 1957, that sh had received a letter from capt1one organi£et1on r questing she furnish any information ehe might hav relet1~ to her all ged observation of a 'flying e ucer" a year or o ago near Richmond, Virginia. Mrs. Blunt informed she 1 mployed by the Riof)mond Quartermaster Depot of the United State Army nd 1ft w a while on her way to work one morning th t she had sighted the obj ct in qu st1on. She stated that s veral other women employees of the Depot were present and subsequently one of these women had told a ne spsper reporter about the incid nt nd all their nam s d ppe rd in the pap re . Mr • lunt advised that she was reluctant to answe~ the letter es she felt it could ~e an illegal or subv rsive group who was trying to obtain information they should noc have.. She pointed out that she kn w nothing bout the organ z tion but the correspondence did not re ·1.ect th 1group was connected with the United St te Government in any She informed t t th letter indicated the group national organization whose duty it waa to inv stigate any and all unusual aerial phenomenon. It aleo reflecte that one Bob Gribble wa the Executive Director nd Jim the Director of Inveet1gation. The eddr s for this organiz t1on wee shown to be 51o8 F nlay Street, Beattl,
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.