65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_8

FBI · Document

65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_8 is indexed as a FBI record. 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.

Notable / anomalous element

• STRINGFIELD who is intensely interested in flying saucers and has created the Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects organization. (OCR text, page 36)
• We would appreciate names and addresses of witnesses reporting unidentified flying objects or other aerial phenomenon to your office during this period. (OCR text, page 173)
• We are a national organization whose objectives are to investigate and determine the nature of unidentified flying objects and related phenomena. (OCR text, page 173)
• The Detroit Flying Saucer Club announces the distinguished presence of MR. (OCR text, page 31)

Details

• He said he telephonically contacted Maday on June 3, 195 and found that Maday was only the agent having rented the Taft Auditorium and that he was acting on behalf of Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson. (OCR text, page 5)
• Eickhoff advised that Maday at no time said anything to discredit either Bethurum or Williamson and indicated that their disagreement concerned only Maday's placing the ad in "The Cincinnati Enquirer" prior to having tickets for the program available in Cincinnati. (OCR text, page 5)
• Marine Corps, which book was published by Harper's Publishers, and a book entitled "Flying Saucers Have Landed," by George Adamski, which book is published by Werner-Lowery Company in England, and is distributed by the British Book Center in New York City. (OCR text, page 6)
• He said that he has also heard broadcasts by persons he considers reputable news commentators, such as Walter Winchell, Fulton Lewis, Jr, and Frank Edwards, to the effect that reliable persons have reported observing flying discs or saucers. (OCR text, page 6)
• Air Force has denied the existence of the flying saucer and he felt that persons such as Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, in presenting a program such as that contemplated, were either truthful or they were frauds. (OCR text, page 6)
• The article also reflects that Truman Bethurum allegedly was aboard flying saucers on eleven occasions. (OCR text, page 7)
• He said he was advised, however, by Colonel O'Mara 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. (OCR text, page 7)
• had been cancelled, and that he felt this meeting had such important information for the people as a whole that he was going to make every effort to make the meeting one of national significance. (OCR text, page 8)

Tags: FBI, Air Force, Flying discs, Unidentified object, Saucers, Discs, Aerial phenomena