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.
“The Pentagon”4 pages
-2- SAUCERS HARASS EARTH; FEAR OF WORLD PANIC FORCES INTERNATIONAL CENSORSHIP: Behind the Mask of Comedy is tragedy - - the tragedy of censor ship; on stage is the "Flying Saucer" whose misfortune of name has held it ludi crously before the public eye since Ken Arnold announced "nine saucer-like things" flying near Mt. Ranier in 1947. " Saucers" in their true dimension are less ludicrous to world governments. Working in cooperative secrecy they have enforced a bowstring-tight conspir acy of censorship. A recent example is found in this writer's correspondence with the Chilean Naval Mission in Washington, D. C. To quote their reply of December 23, 1953: " We are pleased to acknowledge receipt of your letter ... regarding the photo graphs showing UFO's informational flight, which you mention were taken by Captain Orrego of the Chilean Navy near Antarctica in 1948. 'Regarding this matter we wish to inform you that recently we received a com munication from Capt. Orrego stating that he had not seen any UFO's over the Antarctica in 1948,therefore, the photographs requested by you do not exist.... 11 (Signed) Harold Nagel, Captain Chief of the Chilean Naval Mission. Going back into old files I find that Capt. Augusto Orrego said:"During the bright antarctic night we saw flying saucers, one above the other, turning at tremen dous speeds. We have photographs to prove what we saw. 11 And now, the proof of Chilean contradiction, thus international censorship. Here I refer to Major Keyhoe I s recent book. He says: "Later, when I requested copies ·from the Chilean Embassy in Washington I was told that the pictures ( Captain Orrego 1s) were classified. 11 Editor: For the pictures to be classified they first had to exist. Why, d~ring December, did they fail to exist? Does this tie in with the U.S. Air Force's sudden security ruling, which I learned by letter from ATIC, Wright-Patterson AFB, dated De·c. 17, 1953. They said, in part: "In reference to your letter, the A TIC has been directed to make all information on Project Blue Book available to the Dept. of Defense for release from that point only .... 11 What happened in those yestermonth skies ? Why do our Air Force and Central Intelligence bend over backwards to circumvent the truth about flying saucers? Why do foreign governments self-contradict themselves? Are they hiding super saucer missiles of their own ... or, are they all just being cooperative to con- •ceal some great American weapon? Hardly! . The answer is in the skies today ... right this minute! Fresh reports come to my desk daily. They come from competent and honest people. While these reports are being written other vehicles are crossing the barriers of space and time to "violate" earth's international boundaries ... to harass the paths of air lines, and with increasing frequency, to come closer to terra firma. Here, they hover over roof tops, 11buzz 11 automobiles and peer into house windows. Some cause destruction, even death. Are these the behind-the-scenes reasons for censorship?
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.