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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.
“Expedition X”1 page
.. Conterenoes ~th ATIC, notification of government officials in ref!POnaible positiona. Conferenooa with CIAJ J' DOR clouds and effects, DOR removal (Smog 11ooalled• also 11.ppear1 u 1moky aubetanoe subsequent to UFO sightings u you know) JOOR aa Deadly Orgone Energy; Oren.a I Oranur We ther control I Rai.nmaking, a.110 oTer deserts, Hurricane dis11ipation1 Tra.nsportation of Orur including "qu••ring ot Radar", J Breakdown (liemiplegia) of apaoegtm operator while drawing tro Ea, - And many t"urther detailed upecte of CROP Desert Ea. work auoh as the •energetic node ■ found uperimentally", eto., eto •••• There i• no shortage of faota , ob1ervati01111, and ertdenoe. But the ruth has so far not yet been beard, whiob. i• all it needs to win. Furthermore there is evidence for eepionage against this work I Tapped radio, opened 11 etc. Sinoe to date UFO'• are offioi lly "nonexietent• The FBI baa aofar declined to investigate as the subject is "not within their juri1diotion". I am personally witness to the f'aot of the u:istenoe of the Orgone Energy Kotor, and letters, dooumenta, etc., deaoribing the mysterioua disappee.rlUloe of one ITilliam fash i ngton who came into poa1e1sion of much knowledge oonoerning "orgonometry, mathematical, and the Motor principle,• and who b.a.1 diaappea.red aince 1949. I e.m aura any investigating agency could looa.te hia whereabouts in a. short time. I t ia clear that the power.f'ul Oil interests 1n this country ar out to keep their pr dominance 1n the field of power and income. and are involved in keeping the Orgone Energy Motor problem auppre ■ aed. Thea• point a.re mentioned to give you a hint how neoesaary a bona fide, courageowi, forthright investig ti on has become. I appe nding a bibliography for your convenience where you mAY f ind some of the printed evi dence for our charges. If no investigation h forthcomi ng within a re1u1onably short time we are forced to uae foroeJ- to l.Ule the soientifio power of the Energy which we have learnt to trigger ( stonns, floo ds eto.) Sincerely youra -EV« &~ f""tc;t~ En. Reioh YD ( re. William s. -~oile) Rt . l, POB 721 Alexandria, Va SOuth 5 - 7081 other Former Starr member•• Expedition Orop Deaert r.a •1 ) Robert A. MoCullo~ 2) William Steig 5) lfilliu. Moi ■ e PS Sino• it will take ae a day or two to prepare refereno• li1t, it will tollOlt' and is not enolc ■ ed, a1 1tated in letter.
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.