65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_008
- Date
- Date unknown
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
One section of the FBI's master 'flying discs' file 62-HQ-83894, mostly 1954-1957 correspondence rather than a single incident report. Bulk content: Cincinnati field-office reporting on contactee Truman Bethurum and on Leonard Stringfield's 'Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects' newsletter (opened, per the caption, as an ESPIONAGE inquiry, closed with no derogatory finding); a 1957 letter from Eva Reich (daughter of Wilhelm Reich) to Stringfield about 'orgone energy' and alleged suppression of her father's work; a burst of Sputnik-era October-November 1957 reports (Old Brookville, NY; a Fort Worth home-movie film offer); and a loaned November 1957 FBI Detroit report of a Polish immigrant, Wladyslaw Krasuski, describing a 1944 sighting near Gut Alt-Golssen, Germany, of a disc-shaped vehicle rising from a guarded underground enclosure, forwarded to CIA, Army, Navy and Air Force intelligence.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- Yes: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- Yes: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- Yes: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating The one described physical incident (Krasuski) is a single uncorroborated witness recalling a wartime event 13 years later, at second-hand distance from any FBI investigation of the site itself; everything else in this section is administrative correspondence, contactee claims and fringe-science letters with no sensor data or FBI-verified observation.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Mixed: FBI informants and field-office sources reporting on named private citizens (Stringfield, Bethurum, Gunderman); one first-hand witness (Krasuski) relaying a 13-year-old memory to the FBI in 1957
- Sensors
- Visual
- Shape
- Varies by item; Krasuski describes a domed disc, approx. 75-100 yards in diameter and 14 feet high
- Motion
- Krasuski: vehicle rose vertically from a walled enclosure, then moved off horizontally
- Effects
- Krasuski: high-pitched whine that stalled a tractor engine and was heard again by a second witness; uninsulated cables observed running to the enclosure
Pentagon files
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_008
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What the file claims
- Unverified
Stringfield told an associate the Air Force maintains strict censorship and could court-martial personnel who reveal facts about a secret saucer research project.
- Unverified
Krasuski described a domed, disc-shaped vehicle rising vertically from a guarded circular enclosure near Gut Alt-Golssen, Germany in 1944.
- Unverified
Eva Reich claimed espionage against Wilhelm Reich's orgone energy work, including tapped phones and opened mail.