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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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.,.. I SAC, Cincitinati (10 11671) A ril 23 , l 5'1 Director, FBI (62-83894) · ,,, tD.83 ~ CIVILIAN SEARCH INTERPt ETARY FLYING OBJECTS EONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Om.ECTOR '1017 BRIT N AVENUE CINCINNATI 27, om ISCELLANEOUS - FOR TIO CERNING Reurlet April 12, 195'1, ca i.icned as above. Bufile reflect that Eva Relc is the daughter of Dr. il elm eich, . D. , Director of the llhelm Reich Institute, aka. , The rgane Institute Research Labor tories, Inc., at Rangeley, aine. Dr. ilhel Retch, following extensive investigation by the Food and Drug AdminlstraUon, United tates De artment of Health, Education and elfare, in ay, 1956, w found guilty of conte t of court following the issuance of an injunction harring interstate shi ment of evices, literature and promotional material regardlng treat ents by Reich of ca cer and other serious diseases, said devices having been described as rthless by the ood and Drug dministration. allowing unsucce ful appeal efforts, eich was imprisoned on arch 12, 1957. Since early 1951'/, as ell previous thereto, Wilhelm Reich, va Reich, illiam oise and other embers of Reich's staff have directed voluminous corre pondence to th Bureau, to various Bureau divisions, and other United tes Govern ent agencies and officials. one of the materia1 revie ed the Bureau has indicated any violatio within the investigative juriSdiction of this Bureau.
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.