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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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.... ·'Saucers" No., Myth, Sayf Researcher Flying saucers are not a myth. At least, this is the studied conviction of Leonard H. Stringfield, director of civil ian research, Interplanetary Flying Objects, 7017 Britton Avenue, a former Air Force intelligence officer. In a newsletter to be llsue4 Friday by the research bureau, Stringfield reported reauUa of a 26-mlnuk' Interview on flylnr saucers with Lt. Col. .John O'Mara. deputy commander, Air Force tntt,,lllrence, Wrlrb& Field. He wrote that Col. O'Mara "intimat~d" that the Air Force wants to ''dispense with the mis conception that 'flying saucers' do not exist.'' STRINGFIELD REPORTED: "Flying saucers do exist," the colonel fold me, and he added . . . (that) past contradictions were unfortunate. "f asked the colonel it there were two breakdowns of saucers ... the interplanetary device and the secret American missile. I was first corrected on the term 'missile,' then the colonel said he ved there were 'three breal ns'-•the third, 'natural ph ena.' y such an admission ngfl.eld wrote, "we thereto have the~e three breakdowns: Section Page "1. The controlled 's a u c e r- fr u space. • • s cret American saucer- like device. "3. Unexplained natural phe• nomena." Stringfield cont in u e ·d that when he asked the officer for a definite statement on saucers from outer space he was re buffed, but was told that Air For~e research was "gradually gettmg more data." WHEN ASKEl) if all saucers seen by Americans-700 a week -,were U. S. aircraft, Lt. Col. 0 Mara replied, "Definitely not' Something does exist." • ,,. T~e Air Force . officer further ~ntimated," according to String. f1~ld, that an official statement will soon be issued by the De fense Department "which will explain some of the past contra dict~ons and release the details b~h1~d many (flying saucer) s1ghtmgs.'' . ean pretty well declare from ev ence in my files," Strinrfleld • ltol the TIMES-STAR, "that so flying saucers deftnitelJ co e from outer space.'' 7UC'1 J ....,..,. r, • - TJ"--- ~d "2. / v CINCINNATI TIMES STAR, CINCINt ATI , O. FinalDate 9-28-54 Bdition News 25
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.