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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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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT•• TO
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SUBJECT: Dl!.TROIT
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DATE: rovembe JO , 195 .
The p rpose of th s letter s to set out flJ the information
of the Bureau t~1e activit ie s of Detroit I l in aucer Club , as
they are known. Th sis uone chronolo ically .
On ·t.ay 18 , 1954 , Nfrs . c;, S P , Avi Write , Detroit
Free Press , advised that she hac'I bee11 attend nr- s concern n
flyinc- sauce s , ..,,.ockets to the l'lOon , etc . , Thie could be
subversive . On i.t!ay 27 , 1954 , 1 rs . l:'.......... ?,-, T and B@ T Detroit
Free >ress Ed torial r ter , adv sect that one GEO'Ft ·s1:s.I , had
t alked in Detro i t on fly i n saucers . They were alarmed at the nature
of the remar ks ; suc h as 11 We are Amer cans , but" ••.••• and that we
should reduce our arms and woul d b l o1 ourselves up with the H- Bomb ,
because v s tors frori outer space e e a -Praid we had started so e -
thi r: t at .-1onld et out of hand . .mother lecturer n r o t , as
T UHA ·- E~HURU . T e sponsors o ·1e e speake s we~e ILL_.~ "") ·..:.v"" ,
L URA 'RX.K9 TIENRY 1 AY , and RQ_T4 L 00 . Ac c or in )-t-o a nlets'/furnished by ~roD . a "Fly · S ce.,., .ev el r.- oLp 11 • a" to be
fo1"'t'led . This was headed by ,IE l . "L ·-:.. , 364 1. Le iston , erndale ,
11 chi-an , -.ho uses the pen name , J ~• r;yo_ . He is e • o~ , resser
ross Index Directory ,- Detro.:. t . They advised "that L U'"' •RXE . was
the Station v J - TV personal ty "l 11 • 11 in the "'Playschool" pro ·ram.
On July 13 ,. 1°5~- , r.?QODJ.1A advised that rli D Y was brin~incr
to Detroit , so eone rrho talked to people frori Venus , Clarion, etc.,
who ar more h ~hly advanced than earth people . Tney advocated the
Golclen "1ul e as the only wor {able rule . ,ne etinr~ was to be hold on
17, 15 , rOO, ~-1. - also fu nished a letter fro n one ...:LA i ..ac;:;==-=.:-
J oo::: or G; encou:ra in, h rn in hi ntere st n fly n saucers .
JOO 1 ~ fel such a ..... or an zation could use the flyin , sauce:."' s c are
as political propa~anda or from a suedo - rel ous ew . Ie said
they opposed the atomic bo'.!'llb and warfare .
r111ss LOUISJ m, , 8~5lr. Stoepel , Detro t , a clerk n
the Doubleday Bookstore , enobsc ott ,., s d she attended the
July 15 , 1954 meetinry of the flyinr. sauce The
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DEXED-74COPIES DESTRO E EX-1 12270 ov 19196 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.