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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.
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CI. 100-new (CIVILIAN RESEARCH , INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS) The "Newsletter" and the two newspaper clippings were forwarded to this office by JAC UNDERMAN, 3914 Teleford Avenue, Cincinnati 20, Ohio, under date of 10/20/54. Mr . GUNDERMAN advised that he is employed as a layout artist by the Du.Bois Company, Inc., 1120 West Front Street , Cincinnati 3, Ohio, and that he began work there on 8/19/ 54. He advised that the advertising manager of this company is LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD who is intensely interested in flying saucers and has created the Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects organization. He advised that STRINGFIELD is director of this organization and is assisted by his wife, that he writes and publishes monthly the multi-lithographed 11 Newsletter," and that he claims that the publication now has a world-wide circulation of about 4 ,000 copies at a subscription price of $2 .00 per year. GUNDERMAN further adv sed that STRINGFIELD regularly communicates with FRANK1 DWARDS , former A. F . of L. radio news commentator, on the subject of saucers and that, according to STRINGFIELD, EIMARDS is also intensely interested in saucers. EWARDS recently warned STRINGFI.h:LD to be very careful or the Air Force would stop STRINGFIELD 's publishing activities. GUNDERMAN also related that STRINGFIELD main tains that the Air Force was responsible for EDWARDS being fired as the A. F . of L. radio news commentator because EDWARDS used his program to publicize his (EDWARDS) saucer interest. GUNDERMAN related that STRINGFI~LD states in the "Newsletter", and also personally, that the u. S. Air Force maintains a strict censorship of news pertaining to saucers, that the Air Force has several thousand saucer scientists t~rking on a research project, and that any military personnel working on the project are subject to immediate court-martial if they reveal any facts about it. STRINGFIELD has also stated to GUNDERMAN that he be lieves his home telephone is being monitored, presumably by the Air Force , and that he makes phone calls to Wright Patterson Air Force Intelligence Officer JOHN 0 1 MARA and to - 2 -
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.