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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.
“Stringfield”18 pages
' ,' , . Set, 'Em?---Saucers Cover ~ty Sev.eral< Disc Objects Reported Over Cincinnati; Little Men Leave Craft in Germany, Says Here Mysterious aircraft • • • "orange-red col• ored, silent, disc-shaped and 60 feet in diame• ter," were reported hovering 300 feet over Cin. cilmati Monday. This was the fifth report vitbin a week of similar objects seen ar ound 1.1e city, always traveling in ets of three. A similar wave of flying saucer reports has cropped up In five other pat1s of ihe world, incJudiu &' G.enna.ny, Belgium, Enpt, Ar.-e&ina, Lebanon a.nd the French Cameroons. LATEST DISCS cited here were M6nday at 5 a. m, by WLW announcer Keith Wildeson, He r eported the incident to Leonard H. Strini'eld, 7017 Britton Avenue, Madison Place director of civilian research, interplane tary in g objects. He said the current :reports "see to indicate a pattern" in the flight of the sauce •. One of String!ield's neighbors, John H . Sundstrom, 'rolO Britton Avenue, spotted a formation of three discs Sunday at 5 p. m. STRINGFIELD SAID Cincinnati is sup posed to be a megnetic fault line and that per haps the saucers come here_to recharge. In Muenster, Germany, 42-year-old movie :r,roJectlonkt Franz Ho&"e told tb.e news agency DPA. that he saw a "flying saucer" land In a field and peculiarly shaped creatures g-et out. Hoge said he noticed a bright blue light and thought at first it came from a crashed airplane. On closer examination, he declared, he discovered a "cigar-shaped'' craft hov~ring about six feet above the ground and giving off a brilliant blue radiance which nearly blinded him. · Then, the movie projectionist addedE"he suddenly sighted tour creatures about thre and one-halt feet in height. He said they had "thick-set bodies, oversized heads and de te legs" and wore rub!l"-like clothip.%,. '-flTJI r5"Y n T.-ili CINCINNATI POST Date _1_0-_1_1-_5_4_ Edition __Fi_nal___ Section __Ne_w_s__
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.