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
The 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
Krasuski 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
The 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.12