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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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ACTION TAK~N: ._• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO Mr. Tolson March 15, 1957 Tolson Nichols Fl'lOM : L. B. p,rd n Imo I SUBJECT: Nease For record purposes, John Stuart Martin (Great Meadows, New Jersey, telephone Mercury 7-2683) telephoned from his home at 12: 52 p. m., March 14, 1957, while I was tied up on another matter, and talked with w·ck. Martin, age 56, is one of the original founders of "Time" magazine, was \f employed by Louis de Rochemont on our movie, "House on 92nd Street," a\id he formerly was editor of "March of Time." He married Mar Gilb.,.ert , whom he says is known to the Director. He has one arm. l 4 l I ' Martin said, to make a long story short, tha he has run mto a situation which has to do with an unidentified flying object observed two days ago in the Great Meadows vicinity. Martin said he had made a formal report in writing to military authorities, as well as to two civilian groups interested in the affair. General Wedemeyer is connected with one of the latter groups. Martin said he is not satisfied that the "intelligence" he supplied to the military is being handled properly, nor does he know to whom he should submit infor mation and in what fashion. He said frankly he wanted an Agent to call upon him so that the Agent could evaluate his information, although he said he well knew "flying saucers, " etc. , were not within the scope of the FBI' s interest nor jurisdiction. (The attached news ticker from United Press reflects that in testimony before a House Appropriations Subcommittee, 2-19-57 . Hugh yden, Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, had flatly stated there is no such thing as a flying saucer. It was said too that the Air Force or some other authority should nail down the unidentified "flying objects" and "say it is pure fiction.") ~ While normally we would simply tell a caller that we have no and that he should refer such matter to the proper military -'Ylfcc: Mr. Boardman cc: Mr. Belmont 2 REW:af t;, / ~ -
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.