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.
“Stringfield”18 pages
• CI . 100-new (CIVILIAN RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS) regarding STRINGFIELD. This letter also contains informa tion concerning a contact by THOMAS EICKHOFF ~ith Lt . Colonel JOHN O'MARA, Wright - Patterson Air Force Base, on 6/6/54 relative to BETHURUM 1 s story regarding flying saucers. The foregoing is for the Bureau's in:formation and this office is advising OSI , Wright-~atterson Air Force Base of the substance of the information in this letter and that no further action is being taken . It is noted that JACK GUNDERMAN requested in his letter that his identity be kept confidential . The files of this office reflect that JACK SPAIN - GUNDERMAN voluntarily appeared at th1s office in December, 1951 , and furnished a piece of literature wh1ch he had found at the University of Cincinnati . At that time he had no information as to subversive activities and no further contact was made with him . The files of this office contain only one reference to HERBERT E. CLARK. This reflects that he is HERBERT E. CLARK, Jr . , and that in August, 1954, as program chairman of the Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church Marri-eds class , he requested a speaker for 11/13/54. On 9/13/54 he was advised that SA MARK M. McSHURLEY would speak to the above mentioned class on the topic of General Activities of the FBl . - 4 -
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.