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dated February 6,1954 and number 16 being dated February 13 195.The number 15 issue contained an article concerning Truman Bethurum, in which he is identified as a truck driver from Redondo Beach, Calif- ornia, and it refers to an article dated December 3l, 1953,which appeared in the "Daily Breeze,a newspaper at Redondo Beach, California, which allegedly contained a description of an encounter which Truman Bethurum had with a crew of assumed space explorers under the super- vision of a ravishing woman commandant in the Nevada desert.The article also reflects that Truman Bethurum allegedly was aboard flying saucers on eleven occasions. At the bottom of the first page of issue number 15 there appeared in what Mr. Eickhoff stated was the handwriting a factual experience-- Truman Bethurum. The above mentioned article in "valor also his residence address is 519 North Gertruda Avenue, Redondo Beach, California. Mr.Eickhoff reiterated that he felt Bethurum's story,if true,should be given wide publicitybut that if the story was false,then he should be prosecuted for fraud.He stated that he first took his information to the Air Force in the person of Lieutenant Colonel John O'Mara of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, whom Ohio,on SundayJune 6l954. Eickhoff indicated that he asked Colonel OMara if there were such things as flying saucers and if Bethurum's story could be true, and he said O Mara denied that there was such athing as a flying saucer and indicated to him that Donald E. Kehoe, the author of "Flying Saucers in Outer Space"was a fraud and that information is available in Washington that Kehoe is a fraud. He said he was advised,however, by Colonel OMara 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. He advised that the original meeting schedule for June ll 3