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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.
“Edwards Air Force Base”2 pages
• •.... October 1, 1954 issue of the "Newsletter", supra, and also reports on STRINGFIELD 1 s interview with Lieut nant Colonel JOHN 0 1 MARA, Deputy Connnander, Air Force Intelligence, Wright Field (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio). The same source also reported that STRINGFIELD regularly communicates with FRAl'UC WARDS, former A. F . of L. radio news commentator, on the subject of sauoers and that, according to STRINGFIELD, EDfARDS is also intensely interested in saucers. EDlARDS recently warned STRINGFIELD to be very careful or the Air Force would stop STRINGFIELD 1 s publishing activities. This source further reported that STRINGFIELD maintains that the U. s. Air Force was responsible for EDWARDS being fired by the A. F . of L. as its radio news conn:nentator because EDWARDS used his program to publicize his (ED~ARDS 1) saucer interest. This source further advised that STRINGFIELD has stated in his "Newsletter" and also personally that the U. S. Air Force maintains a strict censorship of news pertaining to saucers, that the Air Force has several thousand saucer scientists working on a research project and that any military personnel working on the project are subject to immediate court-martial if they reveal any facts about it. It was also related by this source that STRING FIELD has stated that he believes his home telephone is peing monitored , presumably by the Air Force , and that he there 'l.ore, makes his phone calls to Lieutenant Colonel O'MARA at Wright - ~atterson Air Force Base and to FRANK EDWARDS from his office at the DuBois Company, Inc., 1120 ~est Front Street, Cincinnati 3, Ohio, where he is employed as the Advertising Manager . This source was of the opinion that STRINGFIELD is now afraid to proceed too much for fear the U. S. Air Force will in some way stop his operations and that ED ARDS 1 warni~ to STRINGFIELD came after STRING FIELD had issued the October 1, 1954 "Newsletter" concerning his talk with Colonel 0 1MARA. At the same time, this source continued, STRINGFIELD in talking about the possibility that the U. s. Air Force might stop his operations, made a statement to the effect, 11 The Air Force can't do anything to me . I 1m claiming saucers are interplanetary." - 2 -
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.