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.
“Norfolk”4 pages
.... I IU ITE D ST.ATES D EPARTME T OF JUSTICE In Reply, Please Refer to File No. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIO Detroit 31 , .ichi ·an ove ber 7,1957 In res.one to a letter dizccted y h' to ..r . obert Cutler , 0 ecial ssistant to .J:>resident ,.ri • t JJ . 'i..1enho er ,reflectintewart 11 as a isplaced erson , destine to the everen 1ather etro alko ic..k, au tramck , ,...icrii an ; is alien re.;istration numoer - '(b) (6) ince 1ay , 1951 , he has been employed at the Gobel rewery , Detroit . ews reJort of ysterious ve icle in rexas c using engines to stall .. ro. ted 1 • to cor. nunicate i-Jith tne United utates Government concer 1ing as milar henomenon observed b in in 1944 in tne area of Gut Rlt Golssen . ccordin0 to rasuski, durin l944 , month not recalled, \·1hile enroute to ,ork in a ..i_ield a short distance nort. of ut lt Golssen , their tractor engine stallea on a road t ..1rou6h as iam area . o mac1 inery or other venicle ,as t,en visible alt ou.; a noise 1 as heara described as a 11igh- pitched · ine si.ilar to that produced b a large electric generator .
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.