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.
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.. ' • , I RECORDED • 54 e ruary 20, 1957 DEXED • I f r . Hagan Parrish Sheriff of olk County ost Office Box 631 Barto ,. Florida y dear Sheriff: Your letter dated ebruary 8, 1957, bas been received, and I want to thank you for brin~ the enclosed material to our attention. Since the contents of your communlcatio are of primary concern to another governmental agency, I am taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter and a copy of its enclosure to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the ·r Force, Building Tempo E, Fourth and Adam Drive, Southwest, ashington, D. C. Sincerely yours, -COM ":. FBI I John dgar ---- Direc cl (!... ./J. \cc - Seattle, with copy of incominnn.:........,, its enclosure Re Richmond letter 1- 11 - 57 ' o erial Phenomena Research Group~ Miscellan ous lnfor}hat10n Concerning. ' NOTE: Bufiles reflect thaf a citizen in Richmond, Virginia, received a similar letter earlier this year from the Aerial Phenomena Research Group of the same type forwarded by correspondent. OSI at Langley Field, Virginia, made a co y o~ it available to the Bureau. (62-83894-372) No other pertinent references located. Copie~1of iA~1o/ing and its enclosure sent to OSI by form . /. ~'':,/ f'Jt'/) DCL:pwl V' l 7 (4)
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.