Bethurum Case (1954) — FBI Files (D34P3)
Bethurum: Thomas Eickhoff was re-interviewed on July 2, 1954, regarding information previously provided on June 7, 1954. The interview concerned flying discs and was conducted in accordance with FBI guidelines. The content of the interview is detailed in a memorandum attached to
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 3 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_8, a declassified FBI vault file released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is dated July 2, 1954 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Thomas Eickhoff was re-interviewed on July 2, 1954, regarding information previously provided on June 7, 1954. The interview concerned flying discs and was conducted in accordance with FBI guidelines. The content of the interview is detailed in a memorandum attached to a communication dated June 8, 1954.
Witnesses on file: Thomas Eickhoff.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: no agency assessment. All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office unless otherwise stated, meaning the federal government has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series), atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.