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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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO • Director , FBI DATB: 1/18/5 5
,j.J.PR.OM . • AC , Kansas City {66- 2995)
SUBJECT:
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On Janui:1ry 13 , 1955 Mr . C. W. CHEEK , telephone
AT 6747 , Kans ~s y ~ s ., contacted an gent of this office
and advised he is employed as an aeronautical engineer at
the Ford Aircraft Plant at Claycomo , Mo . He indicated he
obtained the Agent ' s name through investi gation conducted
at the Ford Plant in connection with a sabotage case there
approximately one year ago .
Mr . CHEEK indicated he and two other engineers had
perfected plans for a "fling saucer ty e aircraft" . He said
they had been negotiating with the U. S . Air Force and the
CAA for several months with regard to the sale of the plans
for this · rcraft to the Air Force . He also indica ed th
one J , TAf•PLER , Chief of Defense Dep rt ent , vashi ton ,
D. c., was fully aware of the plans for this aircraft and h d
advised him that he should not divulge these plans to anyone
other than Agents of the FBI or high ranking officers in the
U. S . Air Force .
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JAN 2 1955 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.