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This FBI file concerns Truman Bethurum, a California truck driver and flying-saucer lecturer who claimed encounters with extraterrestrial visitors. In 1954, the Cincinnati office recorded reports from Thomas Eickhoff about a proposed Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson program at Taft Auditorium, including concerns that public ticket sales could amount to fraud if the claims were false. The records describe Bethurum's connection to the Soulcraft publication 'Valor,' Leonard Stringfield's Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects group, and contacts with Air Force personnel about saucer reports. A later 1964 Bureau response to correspondence about Bethurum's book 'Aboard a Flying Saucer' states that the FBI did not provide evaluations or conclusions about individuals, publications, or organizations.

FBI file number: 62-83694 | Documents span: 1954-1964 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Truman Bethurum, Thomas Eickhoff, George Hunt Williamson, Leonard Stringfield, William Dudley Pelley, Donald E. Kehoe, John O'Hara, Herbert E. Clark, Frank Edwards
Subjects: flying saucers, UFO lectures, civilian UFO research, Soulcraft, FBI correspondence