65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_007

Covers roughly 1952-1954, the contactee era. Its most developed thread concerns Cincinnati resident Thomas Eickhoff, who in June 1954 told the FBI he had met self-described contactees Truman Bethurum (who claimed contact with a woman from the planet Clarion) and George Hunt Williamson, and was helping organize a large paid public meeting; the FBI's response instructed the field office to tell Eickhoff the Bureau had no jurisdiction over flying-disc claims, could not vouch for or against the group, and that participating would not shield him if fraud were later found. A related letter asks the FBI directly whether George Adamski's 1953 book 'Flying Saucers Have Landed' (co-written with Desmond Leslie, describing Adamski's claimed contact with a man from Venus) has 'any foundation in fact'; the surviving reply is not present in the sampled pages. The section also carries a routine Seattle field-office policy memo on how sighting reports (saucers, parachute landings, submarines) are disseminated to military intelligence without FBI evaluation.

Why this rating None of the sampled content in this section is a sighting report; it is entirely about the FBI's jurisdictional stance toward contactee claims (Bethurum, Adamski, Williamson) and a routine dissemination policy, with the Bureau explicitly declining to evaluate the underlying claims.

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  Thomas Eickhoff told the FBI that contactees Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson were touring nationally and planning a large paid public meeting in Cincinnati, expecting a 'four thousand dollar take.'

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  The Air Force had already told Eickhoff it considered the contactees' claimed experiences fraudulent.

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  A correspondent asked the FBI directly whether George Adamski's account of personal contact with a man from Venus, published in 'Flying Saucers Have Landed,' had any factual basis.

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  FBI Headquarters instructed the Cincinnati office to tell Eickhoff the Bureau had no jurisdiction over flying-disc matters and that the Air Force was the proper agency.