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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.

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driver 01 i::.
n n J? ec:1.red and t.al ed briefl ,it.. ·he Ger. an
e tractor , \1 o waited five to ten .inutes ,
after t e noi:$e s opped an'1 t e tractor e ,._, •ne as
ally . p roxll,atel 3 ours 1 ter in the same
swanp area , bu-c. away fr om t.e road Jhere the work crew was
cu tin· ' ay" , ne s 1rre iti u ly , b cause of tl German
in c1 ar 0 o t 1e ere and 1• -uar s in \,;ne o her,;· s rted1
area , o ;.;erved. a circular nclosure ap ro 'itnatel 100 to
150 yards in dia. et~r rotec c fro 1 vie ers by ,. tar ,au.lin-
t L all a..., roxi atel 5 feet ' i...,. , ....'ro ic a v 1icle
wa o s rvect to s lo 11 rise verticc:1.lly to hei t suf "'icient
to clear t.1e. ,, all and th n to ove slowly horizontally a
sort di tanc out of his vi w, ich as o str cted by
nearb trees .
Thi ve icle , oo~erved fro a pro i a.tel
j O _eet, as as c:..rc...J. ....r i. s , 75 to 100
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oise topp d , afte ic t~e e1gin~ ally .
Uninsulate et , iul copier,
cables one an one- al inc tot o inc in iameter, on
and un er t e surface of the ground , in 01 e places covered
by ·ater , ere observed on this and previou occas ions ,
a pare tly ru in0 betwee tee closure and a small
concrete col - like structure bet,een the road and enclosure .
is area as not visite by r asuski
again until s ortly after the end of orld ar , when it
was observed the c & es had be en removed and the previous
locations of the concrete tructure an d. the enclosure were
covered by water . asuski stated he has not been in
communication ince 194> with any oft e work crew o
or 18 men , consisting of ussi , ~re nch d olio s ,
o aa iscu~s • this incide t on t em~elve ~a times .
tl owever , o • thes , rasuski ,as abl vO recall oy nai.ne
onl ncisze rabo\· s ki, no au.dress known , described as
then a out 5 years o a 0 e an res e y ras ski to have
returne~ t o eland dfter 1945
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