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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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' explosions Mysteriou~h~~f s}:\attering glass . . ding north. A t?"n!E ♦ s:.n. u J . plo ROME DAILY A:'.\lERICAN Tu'esday, September 28, 1954 ~--- Windshield ' To . • idshield "hurricane pa b ,. rl'\v appeared ca • ,hen srat,ed north again . with the last case be:n5 noted one week ag:J at Modena, on the $OUthem edge of the~ R.i.:.:.eJ:.. val.~y. In its walret'Re myst13,-y as left sources of stunned motorists, many cut by gJa.ss, des<::ribing the pheno menon to puzzle .i auLhoritie:,. They were driv.11g along, sober folk with nothing unusual vis:ble bs!ore tl:lem, when .m:!jenly-cra.sh ! The "expl:.Jt:lerl" w:ndshLeJj splint e,s into a thous!lnd p:eces, crashing into their laps and cften cutting tbe han::!s im:l face. Mo~e Hum once a serious crackup has been narrowly averted . What causes it? No one seems to k11ow. Italians call it '·cancer of tbe win::shield." In its course across Italy, the "disease," which first appeared t.o strike ·• can 1 otorists in nort 1a sprea rem au omc i es to 1nclu e streetcars and houses. It has o.:::urre::I by ::lay an:l night and seems unrelaten to weather, speed or age of vehicle. Following it3 June appearance in the Italian Piedmont, where it struck four cars iti an area oi a hunjred miles, the epideni1c mov ed east and south, hit Rome a week later. The phenomenon then mov ed north, blasting the front glass of a big red tourist bus in Genoa. Latest case, still further north, was the literal explosioo of f;he windshield glass of D.r. Martino Fa rlnettl at Modena. Dr. Farlnetti, en route ' to a clinic, was cu£ fn the face and m:imentarlly l:ist control of the car. Attemping to brake to a stop, he spun around and neat'ly went over in a dit~h.
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.