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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 008

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 217 pages · text from the file's own layer

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. 181 Re Cincinnati letter to Bureau 4/12/57, copies for Norfolk, requestin (Mrs. WILLIAM S . Inasmuch…
  • p. 183 …For the information of the Bureau and the Norfolk Office , Mr . STRINGFIELD is presently the Advertising…
  • p. 185 …For the information of the Bureau and Norfolk, persons mentioned by Dr. REICH in her letter…
  • p. 193 …27, Ohio MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING Relet from Norfolk to Bureau dated 4/18/57 . For informatio…
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FROM SAC, HOUSTON 081700
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT WHICH FELL NEAR HOME MRS. DONAL
HOUSTON, TEXAS, OCTOBER 24 LAST. INFORMATION CONCE NING.
MRS. DONALD BLEVINS, 1235 SHAWNEE, HOUSTON, ADVISED THAT ON
OCTOBER 24 LAST OBJECT BETWEEN SIZE OF GOLF BALL AND FIST
FELL INTO HER YARD. OBJECT ALLEGEDLY OF METALLIC ASH OF
SOM£ KIND, WAS BRIGHT AND HOT WHEN IT FELL. OBJECT FOUND
BY MRS. BLEVINS' SON WHO REPORTED IT TO SCIENCE TEACHER,
WHO SUGGESTED AUTHORITIES BE CONTACTED. INFORMATION FURNISHED
OSI, ELLINGTON AFB, WHO HAS CONDUCTED INVESTIGATION. PRESS
INQUIRY RECEIVED TODAY . . ANSWERED BY STATING REPORT OF FALLING
OBJECT HAD BEEN RECEIVED AND INFORMATION CONCERNING HAD BEEN
RELAYED TO MILITARY AUTHORITIES, ELLINGTON AFB. OBJECT
ACCORDING TO OSI IS PART OF AN ORDINARY FLARE . AND OF NO
SIGNIFICANCE. FOR BUREAUS INFORMATION.
RECEIVED: 4:44 PM RADIO
5:11 PM CODING UNIT HJT
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If the intelli~ence -:ontoined in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably
paraphrased in order to p;otecl the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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