65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 008

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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DETROIT FLYING SAUCER5CLUB , ESP -X. ONE LEONARD DAVIDSON, 14896
KENTFIELD ., A DETROIT PD PATROLMAN WHO IS A MEMBER OF ABOVE CLUB ,
ADVISED THAT RANDALL COX , WHO IS A CLUB DIRECTOR , TWICE HAS
STATED HE IS "WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FBI AND HAS BEEN
TOLD TO REPORT TO WASHINGTON , D . C. FOR A CONFERENCE . 11 COX
REPORTEDLY SAID HE RAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO BRING ANOTHER CLUB
OFFICER, JOHN C. HOFFMAN , WITH HIM . HOFFMAN AND DAVIDSON ARE
COUSINS . WHEN THE TIME CAME TO GO TO WASHINGTON, COX SAID IT
WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GO AND THEY WOULD DO SO LATER . BOTH
OF COX ' S STATEMENTS WERE MADE WITHIN PAST MONTH . THE DETROIT
OFFICE IS PREPARING A REPORT SUITABLE FOR DISSEMINATION ONT
CLUB . IMMEDIA'l1ELY AFTER 1/15/55, COX WILL BE INTERVIEWED BY
DETROIT REGARDING ABOVE STATEMENTS , REPRIMANDED AND CAUTIONED
TO REFRAIN FROM SUCH IN THE FUTURE, UACB . A REPORT WILL THEN
BE SUBMITTED .
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