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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STANDARD FORM NO. 84 Office Mem&ndum • uNrTEo sTI Es GOVERNMENT TO DATE :DIRECTOR FBI 11-8- 57 ~ FROM , :AC KANSAS CITY (66- 2995) SUBJECT: FLYING DI~S INFORMATION CONCERNING f On November 5 , 1957 , SA (A) ER s. POND received information from Mr . OONALD REIT GASH, 3012 Blueri , Kansas City , Missouri that an uncle, LELAND JESS ASH or JESSE LELAND GASH , employed by an aircraft concern and residing at Fort orth, Texas , about two years ago saw an unidentified subject in the sky near his home . He obtained his movie camera and took pictures of the object . About eighteen months ago the uncle visited in Kansas City and the movies of the flying disc were shown . According to GASH , the pictures were very good and consisted of about fifteen feet of film . Mr . GASH stated that he and his uncle have felt "foolish" when discussing the matter and never bothered to report it . He said however in view of the late international developments he felt that the Government should have this information . In view of the fact that the Bureau may~be interested in this film , it is requested that t he Dallas Office at Fort Worth , Texas locate and interview LELAND JESSE GASH or JESSE LELAND GASH and obtain the film for transmittal . . to the Bureau . I t is suggested that the Bureau , after reviewing the film , advise the Office of Speci~l I nvestigat ions , USAF , of any pertinent information depmed appropriate . 2 - Bureau 2 - Dallas 1 - Kansas City (66- 2995) SP:jl ( 5) 64NOV 181957 f 111i--
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.