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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.
' ' dated February 6, 1954 and number 16 being dated February 13, 1954. The number 15 issue contained an article concerning Truman Bethurum, in which he is identified as a truck driver from Redondo Beach, Calif ornia, and it refers to an article dated December 31, 19.53, which appeared in the 11 Daily Breeze, 11 a newspaper at Redondo Beach, California, which allegedly contained a description of an encounter which Truman Bethurum had with a crew of assumed space explorers under the super vision of a ravishing woman commandant in the Nevada desert. The article also reflects that Trwnan Bethurum allegedly was aboard flying saucers on eleven occasions. At the bottom of the first page of issue number 15 there appeared in what Mr. Eickhoff stated was the handwriting of Truman Bebhurum the statement "This is a true story, a factual experience -- Truman Bethu.rum. 11 The above mentioned article in "Valor 11 also reflected that Truman Bethurum is 55 years of age and that his residence address is .519 North Gertruda Avenue, Redondo Beach, California. Mr. Eickhoff reiterated that he felt Bethurum. 1s story, if true, should be given wide publicity, but that if the story was false, then he should be prosecuted for fraud. He stated that he first took his information to the Air Force in the person of Lieutenant Colonel John 0 1Mara of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, whom Eickhoff visited personally at 0 1Mara 1 s home in Fairborn, Ohio, on Sunday, June 6, 1954. Eickhoff indicated that he asked Colonel 0 1Mara if there were such things as flying saucers and if Bethurum1s story could be true, and he said 0 1Mara denied that there was such at hing as a flying saucer and indicated to him that Donald E. Kehoe, the author of "Flying Saucers in Outer Space' was a fraud and that information is available in Washington that Kehoe is a fraud. He said he was advised, however, by Colonel 0 1Mara that the Air Force could take no action with respect to Bethurum or Williamson. Eickhoff continued that it was his intention to aid in the promotion of a meeting for Bethurum in Cincinnati. He advised that the original meeting schedule for June 11 - 3 -
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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.