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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• • CI. 100-11671 Mr. STRINGFIELD furnished the letter to this office but desired the same be returned to him and it should be noted that Dr . REICH speaks of STRI NGFIELD testifying before some Congressional committee in connection with flying saucers and his publication. She further speaks of events designated 11 0ROP Desert Ea" which STRINGFIELD knows nothing about. In the first paragraph of page 2 in speaking of the above event, she makes reference that there is evidence for espionage against this work and later adds that the FBI so far has declined to investigate as the subject is 11 not within their juri sdiction". It is further noted that she also speaks of the evidence of the "orgone energy motor", which STRINGFIELD has no knowledge of. Dr. REICH mentions a number of people as being former members on the staff' of the expedition 11 0ROP Desert Ea" . For the information of the Bureau and Norfolk, persons mentioned by Dr. REICH in her letter have been checked through the Cincinnati indices with negative results. There are attached hereto two autostatic copies of Dr. REICH 's letter to Mr. STRINGFIELD dated March 19, 1957, for the Bureau, and one copy for the Norfolk Office. The Norfolk Office is requested to check their indices on Dr. REICH and furnish the Bureau with any identifiable data concerning her and persons men tioned in her letter of March 19 , 1957. This office is returning the original to Mr. STRINGFIELD and is not maintaining a copy of the same in this office. -2-
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.