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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.
:C.R.I.F.O. DEWSLETTER e October 1, 1954 Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying ObjectsVol. I No. 7 Leo11tll'd H . Strl111j,ll DirKtor 10ll Britt.. A •• · Ciul•a.ti Zl. OAio Reply to above address or P.O. Box 1855 Copyright 1954 by Len H. Stringfield EXCLUSIVE: PRIVATE TALK WITH LT. COLONEL JOHN 0 1MARA, DEPUTY COMMANDER, INTELLIGENCE,CONFIRMS THE EXISTENCE OF "FLYING SAUCERS" -- TRUTH MAY BE BARED SOON AS 11 TECHNICAL DATA" REACHES THE AIR FORCE. AIR FORCE PLANS COOPERATION WITH PUBLIC. The greatest story involving Earth and Sp ace may soon be told. The "silence" group -- that official fear-faction of the Air force -- who for years fought to keep the truth from the public has now lost its anaconda-hold on accumulative evidence. Stimulated by recent events, the triumphant fearless-faction of the Air Force will take the benighted public in-1:o confidence. As Col. 0 1Mara btti mated: we want to cooperate and dispense with the misconception that "flying saucers" do not exist. Here is the essence of Col. 0 1Mara' s statements, 9/21/54: Flying saucers "do exist" the Colonel told me, and he added, in effect, past con tradictions were unfortunate. At this point I asked the Colonel if there were two breakdowns of saucers ... the interplanetary device and the secret American mis sile. I was first corrected on the term "missile", then the Colonel said he believed there were "three breakdowns" -- the third, "natural phenomena. 11 By such an admission, we therefore have these three breakdowns ... l) the controlled •·saucer" from outer space... 2) a secret American saucer-like device and 3) unexplained natural phenomena. When I tried for a committal statement on the interplanetary "saucer" I was, as expected.rebuffed, but was told that in their research they were "gradually getting more data. 11 Then for corroboration, I asked if all the saucers seen by Americans were American devices and to this the Colonel replied: 11 Definitely not! Something does exist, " he said, which, of course, is diametric to all A. F. statements follow ing Major Keyhoe's book. In this respect, the Colonel intimated that the A. F. plans to cooperate with the public ... and a statement will be forthcoming from the De fense Dept. which will explain some of the past contradictions and release the de tails behind many of the sightings. When I asked, again, about the 700 sightings a week, he told me that this would be covered in the A. F. release. Col. O'Mara and I discussed many sensative issues. Although he spoke guardedly, the Colonel was wonderfully cooperative, and I could well ap:,:reciate his position in relation to official security. When, for instance, I asked about the Earth Satel lites, and the theory indicating they were "rocks " ( see page 3) he replied that he has not received word they were "rocks. 1 1 He said the scientist in White Sands "are still working very hard and have lots of things to work on. 1 1 When . I asked about the silent Mars Committee he explained that the astronomers have not issued a report because 11they are in disagreement" as to what they found. In my 26 minute talk with the Colonel we also discussed saucer hostility, mysteri.: ous plane crashes, the Atlantic problem, and, whether or not the CRIFO News letter was slanted in the right direction. Re: the latter, the Colonel said, in effect, that it ( the Newsletter) was in the right direction ... Editor's Note: Our Newsletter, due to abov~ information, was revamped the last minute. What was the first page is now the second,, et al.
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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.