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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 008

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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.

  • p. 189 …I informed yuu that ataf ember s ot Expedition op es ert Ea, Arizona • 1964- 1966…
Mr . Leonar ~trin gfield
c. r .R.F.o. Orbit
701 ~ Britton Avenue
Cincinnati , 27 , Ohio
Mar ch 19 , 1967
Dear Mr . Stringfield 1
This letter is to confirm and elaborate the content !" of our tel ephone
oonveraation on Ma.rah 12 , 1957. At that t i.me I called you on my own initiat ive,
t ing as a planetary and u.s. citicen, who was a witness to a aeri e of facts
and events desi gnated ft OROP Des ert Ea". It was m:,- a to find out whether you
would be willing t o t estiit about the f acts known to'onu concerning UFO
s i ghting r eports made by he civilian public in he ~ and elsewher e , which
1u Editor of CRIFO Orbit you have collected and iled over sever l years.
I al so want ed to know whether under oath you would reveal what you ' o,r
in your official capac i ty as fo rmer USAF Int elligenc e officer ( is information
bout you was gleane from Edward J . Ruppelt 's book "The UFO Stor-yft). I f inally
baaed my call on the t i tle of your publication "The official Publ icati on of
Cirl i an Research, Interplanet ary r'lying Object aft a.a distinguished f r om the
lllf!t 1 01 who dabble in the unknown.
I informed yuu that ataf ember s ot Expedition op es ert Ea, Arizona •
1964- 1966 had lodged a charge of t reason, fraud, perjury and oona pi raoy againllt
certain governm.nt offi ci a l s through the office or Senator garet Ch.aae Slnith
on March 1, 195f. That t hese meu had obstructed Tital oirllian reaearcb
on t he space problem., and have now apparent l y succeeded i n their treacheroua
at t c througn detraudin the OS court as t o the nature of t he •ork carried on
during Expedition Crop ert Ee. 1 the discover er of Life Lnergy , Dr . Wilhelll
Reich being consequently impri oned on March 12 , 1957 . The at a ff m er •
of EJ:peditU n Orop Desert wish to str~ut that in g their charges they
u-e acting str i ctly on their own , on the basis of the res eotive f aots lcnown
to each one. An inves t igation by the United States ong.res 1 ha s therefore been
requested by ua, concerning the underlying f eta in this unique 1candal.
What baa t o be opened up is the entire fi eld of UFO phenomena, the Undue
S creoy by Airtorce headquarter s , and th e suppres s i on o£ publ ic Ilft'B oonoerning
the subject. Evidence point s to the existence of a widea pread oonapiraoy ot
t h o1 e who want t o 11&i ntain t he eta ua quo of the pres ent world Tift', the
at omio-mechani1tio empty 1pace hypothes i s , t he THEY in the background who
want to kill al l nft' knowledge by criminal mean.a. Our evidence shows that"they"
are in control of apparently all branches of the~goverument. I fee l per1ona.lly
wuure whether there exists at thh point any bona tide honest oonatitutional
goTernMnt. A.tter the eTent1 of 11.aroh 11,1967 the oonatitution ii dead, lcw and
rational order ~tailed. I aa baaing thia at atemflllt on the taot that 1n 1pite
or the nidn.oeon oourt record the sentence agaiut th• DhooTery ot1he Lit•
&iergy waa ueouted. For r•«•rcc• you have to go to the nearest US District
Court where you will f ind Vol\me V Reoord Appendi.x to Briet1 tor .lppellant,.
Cue Io. 5180• Supr... oourt 'lalber 688, Secret ud SupprH1•d hidenoe, Orop
Deaert •• ltM-1966. The Title or th• Report ia •contact with Spaoe•, Oranur,
Seooad Report. 1961 - 1968, By Wilhela Reioh. Dr. Reioh 'lf'U tomd guiltf ot
Oouttapt ot Court tor diaobeying an UILl1l1'tJL a.ad Jl'rau4,ulatly obtained order
agaiut his W'Ork (1964) and tor 1tating at trial 1"Jlat h• bad to oontin1M with hi1 ·
York tor rea1ona ot national aeourity.
We, the ■ ta t f bars of t hia expedi tion are .tactual witnea,e• to•~ upeot1
ot the work 1uoh u I Oranur experiment, Orur ( Denatured Nuclear material -
ill other words •Atou tor Peace") , th• Cloud-buater, Cloudbuater plus Orur equal•
•spao•pm.•. Dtaabled Ea ( Epe ylan alpha Dr . h ioh' s designation ot Spaoe orattJ

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