Documents / Official release
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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• • Mr . and Jf 'TUDE~ , IHMER , !Oirector , FBI RE : DETROIT FLYI G S UCER CLUB ESPION GE - X HENRY MADAY , President LAURA M.l\.R, " , Vice - resident DOLORES E, Secretary OFFMAN , Treasurer He said the club was on to pet ton the President of the United States to ake public all overnment infor tion on fiyin saucers . He also stated that by letter , September 25 , l 95~- , LAURA HARXER advised him he was a group leade n the club , and h s duties would be to keep up 1th latest developments and advise his roup , the names of which he would receive from Miss COYNE . The Detroit Free Press of Septembe 29 , 1954, s din an article that the DFSC met Septe~ber 28 , 1954, and DES~OND LESLIE , British flyinf saucer authority , spoke , statin that <1-EO'R ,-E ADAMSKI made contact to yeas a~o with space people n a Cal fornia dese t . Mr . V1. ..: WILL ill) advised he "ece ved a letter September 30 , 1954, from DOLORES~ - COYNE , Secy., DF~C , settin~ out the d scussion roup in the Fann n ton area as: ILEY, 32740 lTorth ,1este rn 28993 Parkhill 29581 Belfast He received let l,er from her October 4 , 1954, add n to the above list : ·1BO 30203 Overdale Ct., 'Rte . ~- , Farmington 1r. HLL RD on October 13 1954, said that LAURA MA:UCER asked him to call a meetin October , 1954. At this time , he said he felt he lmew less about the cl1..1b 4·han anyone; but he thou ht it would make a ood cover for subversive activ ties . He adv sed the object of o;roup discussions , accordin to MAR,'ill'R , was : 1 . To ndoctr nate people to receive space people . 2 . Mass land nps in Detroit n October (not further expla ned . ) - 3 -
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.