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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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- - •. ,. CIVILIAN RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS LEONARD H . STRINGFIELD, Director, 7017 Britton Avenue Cincinnati 27, Ohio A sourc of unknown reliability, an acquain tance of LEONARD H. TRINGFI=LD who is the Director of the captioned or ganization Civilian Research, Inter planetary Flying Objects, in October, 1954 advised that ST INGFJELD created this organization due to his intense interest in flying saucers. Tb.is source advised that STRINGFIELD is the Director of the organization and is assisted by his wife, and that STRINGFIELD writes and publishes monthly the multi-lithographed 11 Newsletter 11 of the organization. He uses the II ewsletter" to report news pertaining to the sightings of flying saucers and he claims the "Newsletter 11 now has a world-wide circula tion of about 4 ,000 co ies . The ewsletter" sells at the11 subscription price of 2 . 00 per year. The same source furnished a copy of the "News letter" dated October 1, 1954, which issue is designated Volume 1, umber 7, and carries the address Post Office Box 1855 (Cincinnati , Ohio) . This issue identifies LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, address as captioned above, as the Director of the organization and reports that be had a private talk with Lieutenant Colo el JO 1 , Deputy Connnander , Intelligence, United tates Air Force , on September 21, 1954, and that in essence Colonel O'MARA told STRINGFIELD that flying saucers do exist and that past contradictions were u.n.for wiate. It is noted that the final edition of the Cincinnati 11 Times Star", a newspaper of' general circu lation in Cincinnati, Ohio, in its issue of September 28, 1954 on Page 25, carried an article entitled "Saucers, No Myth , Says Researcher" . This article refers to the
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