65 HS1-101634279 100-DE-26505

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65 HS1-101634279 100-DE-26505 is a declassified record from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, dated 1957-11-07, classification DECLASSIFIED. It is part of PURSUE Release 01 — the Pentagon's first public unsealing of UAP records under the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters program, published on 2026-05-08 at war.gov/UFO/. UAP.WATCH has indexed the full text locally so the document can be read, searched, and cited without leaving the site.

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FD-245 (REV. 1-21-80)
Screened by NARA (RF)
11-19-2025 FOIA #
80290 DOCID: 34714593

U. S. Department of Justice

Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007
NOT BE REMOVED FROM OR ADDED TO THIS FILE)
0100 26505
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DE - DETROIT
FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER
BUREAU
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1. Notes re: interview with WLADYSŁAW KRASUSKI (rec'd 11/7/57(
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED on this envelope HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE: 5/22/85
BY: SP-6 byosteg
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Date Received: 11/7/57
From: <empty>
(Name of contributor): <empty>
(Address of contributor): <empty>
By: eharubun
(Name of Special Agent): <empty>
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED on this envelope
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 5/22/85 BY SP6 bjq/jeg
To Be Returned: Yes ( [ ] )
No ( [x] )
Description: Notes re interview w/
WLADYSLAW KRASUSKI 11/7/57
File No: 100-26505-1a/
WA 27516 - 11/7/57
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*   **Numbers and ranges:** "44-45", "25-35 mm", "2 mm", "50' high", "100-150".
*   **Locations:** "Berlin".
*   **Names/Identifiers:** "SS Major Golssen", "Gutatt".
*   **Symbols:** Various circles, lines, and grid patterns, some with internal markings.
*   **Classified information notice:** "ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED", with a date "5/02/15" and a signature "SPE tipetey".
*   **Miscellaneous notations:** "SS" (appears multiple times), "5 1/2", "$ 1/2".

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DURING
HEBER IS INCORPORATED
Internau w/ WLADYSŁAW KRASUSKI 11/7/57
100-26505
Franciszek Grabowski
Record Request
FD-125 (5-27-55)
[ ] Birth
[ ] Credit
[x] Criminal
[ ] Motor Vehicle
[ ] Death
[ ] Marriage*
[ ] INS
To: <empty>
Return to: <empty>
Rathbun
File number: 100-26505
Buded: <empty>
Name and aliases of subject, applicant or employee & spouse
WLADYSLAW KRASUSKI
aka WALTER "
Addresses
Residence: 5457 Jos. Campau.
Business: Euipe Good Brewery
Former: <empty>

*Date and place of marriage (if pertinent): <empty>
Race: W
Sex:
[x] Male
[ ] Female
Birth date: <empty>
Birthplace: <empty>
Age: <empty>
Height: <empty>
Weight: <empty>
Hair: <empty>
Eyes: <empty>
Arrest Number: <empty>
Fingerprint Classification: <empty>
Criminal Specialty: <empty>
FOIA(b)(6)
Specific information desired
any record
(See reverse side for results of check)
URGENT 11-6-57 5-40 PM CS
TO SAC, DETROIT
FROM DIRECTOR 1P
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, IS-X. MR. W. KIASUSKI, Complained
5457
FIVE FOUR FIVE SEVEN JOS. CAMPAN, DETROIT ELEVEN MICHIGAN,
ADDRESSED LETTER DATED NOVEMBER FOURTH TO ROBERT CUTLER,
WHO IS SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT, STATING QUOTE I MIGHT HAVE SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE ROCKET IN TEXAS. I
HEARD ABOUT IT ON THE POLISH RADIO PROGRAM. I WOULD LIKE
TO KNOW TO WHOM I COULD SPEAK TO. UNQUOTE. IMMEDIATELY
INTERVIEW KIASUSKI FOR ANY INFORMATION HE MAY HAVE. BUFLES
REFLECT NO INFORMATION RE KIASUSKI. SUTEL.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE: 5/22/85 BY:
END ACK PLS
OK FBI DE JH
SAR advised 5:45 PM 11/6/51
Wm. Y. Smith advised 6:10 PM
firing
1. Dealers
2. set-up apper
for 2:30
element
not built
ag directing
no phone for adding
max'cross
11/11/57
100-26503-1

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NOV 6 1957
FBI - DETROIT
Detroit 31, Michigan
November 7, 1957
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE: 5/20/85
BY: <signature>

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

In response to a letter directed by him to Mr. Robert Cutler, Special Assistant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower,reflecting that he "might have some information about the rocket in Texas," Wladyslaw Krasuski, 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, was interviewed November 7, 1957, and furnished the following information:
FOIA(b)(6)
Born <empty> in the State of <empty> ,
Krasuski was brought from Poland as a Prisoner of War to
Gut Alt Golssen,approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, Germany,
in May, 1942, where he remained until a few weeks after the
end of World War II. He spent the following years at
Displaced Persons Camps at Kork, Strasburg, Offenburg, Milheim
and Freiburg, Germany. He attended a radio technician school
at Freiburg and for about a year was employed in a textile
mill at Laurachbaden, Germany. He arrived in the United
States at New York, May 2, 1951, via the "S.S. General Stewart"
as a Displaced Person, destined to the Reverend Father Petro
Walkowiak, Hamtramck, Michigan; his alien registration number -
b) (6) .
Since May, 1951, he has been employed at the Gobel
Brewery, Detroit.
News report of mysterious vehicle in Texas causing engines to stall prompted him to communicate with the United States Government concerning a similar phenomenon observed by him in 1944 in the area of Gut Alt Golssen.
According to Krasuski, during 1944, month not recalled, while enroute to work in a field a short distance north of Gut Alt Golssen, their tractor engine stalled on a road through a swamp area. No machinery or other vehicle was then visible although a noise was heard described as a high-pitched whine similar to that produced by a large electric generator.
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An "SS" guard appeared and talked briefly with the German driver of the tractor, who waited five to ten minutes, after which the noise stopped and the tractor engine was started normally. Approximately 3 hours later in the same swamp area, but away from the road where the work crew was cutting "hay", he surreptitiously, because of the German in charge of the crew and "SS" guards in the otherwise deserted area, observed a circular enclosure approximately 100 to 150 yards in diameter protected from viewers by a tarpaulin-type wall approximately 50 feet high, from which a vehicle was observed to slowly rise vertically to a height sufficient to clear the wall and then to move slowly horizontally a short distance out of his view, which was obstructed by nearby trees.
This vehicle, observed from approximately 500 feet, was described as circular in shape, 75 to 100 yards in diameter, and about 14 feet high, consisting of dark gray stationary top and bottom sections, five to six feet high. The approximate three foot middle section appeared to be a rapidly moving component producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller, but extending the cir- cumference of the vehicle so far as could be observed. The noise emanating from the vehicle was similar but of somewhat lower pitch than the noise previously heard. The engine of the tractor again stalled on this occasion and no effort was made by the German driver to start the engine until the noise stopped, after which the engine started normally.
Uninsulated metal, possibly copper, cables one and one-half inch to two inches in diameter, on and under the surface of the ground, in some places covered by water, were observed on this and previous occasions, apparently running between the enclosure and a small concrete column-like structure between the road and enclosure.
This area was not visited by Krasuski again until shortly after the end of World War II, when it was observed the cables had been removed and the previous locations of the concrete structure and the enclosure were covered by water. Krasuski stated he has not been in communication since 1945 with any of the work crew of 16 or 18 men, consisting of Russian, French and Polish POWs, who had discussed this incident among themselves many times. However, of these, Krasuski was able to recall by name only Franciszek Grabowski, no address known, described as then about 50 years of age and presumed by Krasuski to have returned to Poland after 1945.
This report is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside your agency.
11/7/57
AIRTEL
AMSD - RM
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM: SAC, DETROIT (100-26505)
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE: 7/22/85
BY:
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: IS - X.
Re Detroit Teletype to Bureau, 11/7/57, captioned "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; IS - X."
Interview of WLADYSŁAW KRASUSKI, aka. WALTER KRASUSKI, reported in Blank Memo, five copies of which are enclosed herewith for the Bureau, was conducted by SA CASSIUS RATHBUN.
No indication of irrational or otherwise abnormal behavior by KRASUSKI was observed during the interview.
KRASUSKI advised that his communication was directed to Mr. ROBERT CUTLER rather than to President EISENHOWER after seeing Mr. CUTLER's picture and identification with the President's Office in a local paper.
KRASUSKI resides with his wife, nee JOANN WISNIEWSKI, married in 1952 at Detroit, and four small children,in a single residence in an old Polish neighborhood at 5457 Jos. Campau Avenue, Detroit. No previous record located in Detroit Indices identifiable with KRASUSKI or his wife.
On 11/7/57, WILLIAM RECKNAGEL, Manager, advised IC PAUL DESMOND that records of the Mich. Merchants Credit Association, reflect only credit inquiries concerning WALTER KRASUSKI during 6/56 and 3/57 and 6/57, which confirm his local address and employment.
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FD-36 (Rev. 3-13-56)
F B I
Date: 11/7/57
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URGENT
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE: 3/20/85
BY: <signature>
FROM: SAC, DETROIT
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; IS - X.
REBUTEL NOV. SIX LAST. WLAYSLAW KRASUSKI, AKA. WALTER KRASUSKI,
FOI
WAS
GERMAN POW MAY, NINETEEN FORTY TWO, UNTIL SUMMER OF NINETEEN FOURTY FIVE. ARRIVED NY MAY TWO, NINETEEN FIFTY ONE, AS DP, AR NO. (b) (6) , KRASUSKI UPON INTERVIEW ADVISED THAT WHILE GERMAN POW DURING NINETEEN FORTY FOUR, OBSERVED A VEHICLE DESCRIBED AS CIRCULAR IN SHAPE, SEVENTY FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED YARDS IN DIAMETER, APPROXIMATELY FOURTEEN FEET HIGH. THE VEHICLE WAS OBSERVED TO SLOWLY RISE VERTICALLY TO HEIGHTS SUFFICIENT TO CLEAR FIFTY FOOT WALL AND TO MOVE SLOWLY HORIZONTALLY A SHORT DISTANCE OUT OF VIEW OBSTRUCTED BY TREES. ENGINE OF TRACTOR FAILED TO OPERATE DURING THIS PERIOD AND ONZ SEVERAL OTHER OCCASIONS WHEN HIGH PITCHED WHINLING NOISE HEARD IN AREA. NO INDICATION OF MENTAL INSTABILITY DURING INTERVIEW. FURTHER DETAILS FOLLOW AMSD.
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The Oklahoma UFO Research Association

Kerry Liesch, Director
3539 N. W. 53rd
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Bob Stamps, Co-Director
5024 N. W. 20th
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 2, 1966
FBI OFFICE
913 Federal Building
Detroit, Michigan
Dear Sirs:
My organization would appreciate any information that you could send us on Unidentified Flying Objects, specifically those sightings in your area in early spring of this year.
We will greatly appreciate any information that you could send us on this subject. I thank you for your time and co-operation.
Sincerely:
Kerry Liesch
Director, O.U.F.O.R.A.
KKL/lw
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE: 5/15/85
BY:
S-700-26505-5
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FBI - DETROIT
<signature>
Post Office Box 2118
Detroit, Michigan 48231
October 11, 1966
Mr. Kerry Liesch
Director
The Oklahoma UFO
Research Association
3539 N.W. 53rd
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dear Mr. Liesch:
This is to acknowledge your letter of October 2, 1966.
Please be advised that this office does not have the information you have requested. It is possible that the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, may be the proper agency to contact.
Very truly yours,
Paul H. Stoddard
Special Agent in Charge
1-Addressee
1-Detroit (100-26505)
IRA: frq
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HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE: 5/15/85
BY: SP-6 bjw/ty
100-26505-6
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