{"type":"documents","slug":"2026-pursue-release-01-032-65-hs1-101634279-100-de-26505","title":"FBI 100-DE-26505","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-032-65-hs1-101634279-100-de-26505","description":"FBI interview memo preserves Wladyslaw Krasuski's 1957 account of a claimed 1944 wartime sighting in Germany.","date":"2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["FBI"],"disclosureRating":4,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"The Department of War's PURSUE Release 01 identifies this record as an FBI PDF concerning a November 7, 1957 incident entry in Germany.[^1] The official file is a scanned Bureau record labeled `100-DE-26505`, with Central Records Center markings, declassification stamps, and administrative routing pages around the substantive interview material.[^2]\n\n<PDF src=\"https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-101634279_100-de-26505.pdf\" />\n\nThe core record is a Detroit FBI report on an interview with Wladyslaw Krasuski, also identified in the file as Walter Krasuski. Krasuski said he had been brought from Poland to the Gut Alt Golssen area as a prisoner of war, remained in Germany after the war, and later immigrated to the United States. The interview was prompted by his letter to Robert Cutler, Special Assistant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, after Krasuski heard public discussion of a Texas incident involving stalled engines.[^2]\n\nKrasuski told agents that in 1944 a tractor engine stalled while he was traveling through a swampy area near Gut Alt Golssen. He described hearing a high-pitched whine, seeing an armed SS guard stop the tractor party, and observing a circular enclosure or vehicle roughly 75 to 100 yards across that rose vertically, then moved horizontally out of view behind trees. The file also preserves a Bureau teletype summarizing the allegation and noting that agents reported no indication of irrational or abnormal behavior during the interview.[^2]\n\nThe record matters less as proof of a wartime craft than as provenance for how a civilian account entered federal UFO files: a 1957 presidential-office letter became an FBI field interview, then a Bureau record preserved with sketches, routing slips, and later release metadata. Its value is in the chain of custody and in the precise way the claim was stated, limited, and administratively handled.[^1][^2]\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Department of War PURSUE Release 01 page](https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release)\n\n[^2]: [65_HS1-101634279_100-DE-26505 remote release asset](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-101634279_100-de-26505.pdf)","readingTime":"2 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-032-65-hs1-101634279-100-de-26505","title":"FBI 100-DE-26505","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-032-65-hs1-101634279-100-de-26505","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}