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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.
-7- THE CINCINNATI PAINT INCIDENT -- A PARALLEL PHENOMENON? Residents in Cincinnati, Sept. 11, 154 had similar experiences. One Albert Allgeyer came home from work to find the bright yellow trim on his two- story house stained to a "washed-out brown, almost black color. 11 The stains wouldn 1t rub off, without taking the hard top coat of paint. too. It looked like someone had used a blow-torch, and in some places the stains appeared in dirty brown rivulets. Allgeyer was certain that the stains weren't there the night before. So was Howard May, neighbor, who received similar treatment. His house is trimmed in yellow too, as is another house across the street where stains appeared. On Sept. 22, I talked with Allgeyer again and learned that the Kettering La,b at University of Cincinnati had taken air samples as well as specimens of the af fected paint. A Dr. Hughes explained that the mystery was caused by the chemi cal reaction of hydrogen sul phide which could attack the lea d in <r ertain paints. T he Lab averred that the chemical probably emanated from the MillcreekValley which runs near Allgeyer's home, and which has since affected other homes in • the area. Although a Proctor and Gamble doctor who examined Allgeyer told him that the chemical mentioned is not injurious to people, Allgeyer, five days after the incident comnlained of extreme swelling of both hands and eye lids. Described as some kind of allergy -- not hives, they offered no explanation. Editor's Note: Remembering other ubiquitous mysteries, viz., pitted wind shields, metallic pellets, curious ash deposits, I refer red to a re cent article written by Edward S. Schultz, of Buffalo, N. Y. entitled, 11 The Growing Wind shield Damage Phenomenon, 11 which appeared in B. S, R . A. 's May-June, 1954 issue of Round Robin. In this, Schultz offers plausible and provocative theory ... and the possible answer to these phenomena. Write Meade Layne, Direc tor, 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, California. CASE FILE REVIEW: Space does not permit the use of all the excellent ma terial received. Sightings in the U.S. , Europe and Australia are continuing and will be used in forthcoming issues of the Newsletter. C-22, Rockford, Ill. .. 9/5/54) As they had done on many occasions, amateur astronomers, Peter Bartkus and Theodore McColm, were watching the moon through a telescope. Between the hours of 10:35 and 11:15 P.M., Bartkus write s : 11 1 observed the most unusual phenomena I have ever had the experi ence of witnessing." Bartkus continues: "The moon was observed through my 6 11 cassigranian reflector telescope using a secondary mirror. The total focal length for this setup is over 10011 , and with the use of 15 0 and 2 00 power occu lars we got tremendous power with the least loss of light. The moon was in the first quarter and its diameter was 29 feet, 30 inches. We saw a spherical object ascending from the northern section off Mare Humboldtianum area. It was not glowing or brilliant, but seemed more like a dull reflected light of a planet. Its size we estimated at about the diameter of craters Pitiscus or Vlaco. At the time it disappeared at 11: 15, it had travelled more than the 29 1 30 11 of 'arc in about 40 minutes. We checked out the possibility of atmospheric diffraction in the sky or the scope by traversing the scope, and by changing the occulars. The object must have been a powered body because as the moon was descending at 1081 mph, the object was ascending and not following a true orbit. It was definitely in space, and in the same field as the moon, or near the moon. 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.