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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.
SYAN~ FORM NO. 64 • - !I . • •·Office··Memorandum ·. ,. uN1TEn sTATEs GovERNMENT TO Director:, FBI DATB1 11/2/54 SAC, Cincinnati (100 -new) ~ /11 i;_ i <_ -~-1 SUBJECT: CIVILIAN , RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS LEONARD H. 'TRINGFIELD, Director , 7017 Britton Avenue Cincinnati 27 , Ohio INFORMATION CONCERNING Remylets to the Bureau dated o/8/54 and 7/22/54 captioned , TRID!AN BETHURUM, FLYING DISCS, MISCELLANEOUS - INFOHMATION CONCERNING (ESPIONAGE), Buf'ile b~- 83894. Attached for the Bureau ' s information is the 10/ 1/54 11 Newsletter 11 of the Civilian esearch, Interp.Lanetary Flying Objects, designated Vol . I No . 7, which has the address P. o. Box 55 (Cincinnati, Ohio), and which identifies LEONARD H. ST ,INGPIEI•P :, 70l.7 Britton Avenue, Cincinnati 27 , Ohio , as e director of the organization . On the first page of th1s "Newsletter " STRINGFIELD reportis that he had a priv talk with Lt . Colonel JOIDT 0 1MARA:, Deputy Commander , Intelligence, U. s . Air Force :, on 9/21/54 and that in essence Colonel 0 1 MARA had told STRINGFIJ:tLD that flying saucers do exist and that past contradictions were unfortun There is also enclosed a newspaper clipp ng from the Cincinnati Times Star dated 9/21:3/54, entitled,...)'Saucers" No M th, Says Research~ This article refers to the "Newslett enclosed ana also reports on the interview of STRINGFil!:LD with Lt . Colonel JOHN 0 1 MARA, Deputy Commander , Air Force Intelligence , Wright Field. In addition , there is enclosed a second clipping , this bei from the Cincinnati Post of October 11 , 1954, entitled :, See 1 Em? ---Saucers Cover City. This article reflects that several persons in Cincinnati had cited flying saucers and had reported them to LEONARD H. STRIIGFIELD . RCD : BL Encls . (3) Registered Ma11 COPIES DESTRO' •.D NOV 19 1 64 11
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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.