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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.
“The Pentagon”4 pages
• FD-36 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Transmit the following Teletype message to: PAGE THREE POSSIBILITIES OF FLYING SAUCERS AND OUT~R SPACE . MUCH OF COX ' S STATEMENTS BEAR CLOSE R~SEMBLANCE TO THE WRITINGS OF DOROTHY MAR IN , OAK PARK, ILLINOIS , MENTIONED IN DETR IT LETTER, 11- 30 - 54 . IT IS REQUESTED THE BUR U ADVISE WHETHER ANY ATTEMPTS BE MAE BY DETROIT TO OBTAIN ANY O THE MATERIAL MENTIONED BY COX AS BEING IN POSSESSION OF THE FLYING SAUCER CLUB . THI PROBABLY OULT) REQUIRE CONTACTS ~ITH OTHER OFFICERS OF THE CLUB , WRICH MIGHT BE UNDE IRABLE, PARTI ULARLY DUE TO THE OUBr EXISTING THAT THEY COULD BE CONTACTED ON A CONFIDENTIAL BASIS . REPORT FOLLOWS . MCINTIRE END Approved:____________ Sent____. Per__ Special Agent in Charge
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.