{"type":"documents","slug":"2026-pursue-release-01-010-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-153","title":"FBI 62-HQ-83894 Serial 153","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-010-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-153","description":"FBI serial 153 encloses Oak Ridge flying saucer photographs and a Knoxville newspaper clipping from July 1947.","date":"2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["FBI"],"disclosureRating":5,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"PURSUE Release 01 lists this item as `65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153`, an FBI PDF record from case file `62-HQ-83894`.[^1] The released PDF is a nine-page scan whose legible cover material identifies the item as Knoxville file `65-11`, captioned `\"Flying Saucers\" Observed Over Oak Ridge Area`, with an internal-security classification line.[^2]\n\n## Oak Ridge Photo Enclosures\n\nThe serial is an enclosure-forwarding record, not a narrative investigative report. Its content note says the Bureau was receiving two photographs of reputed \"flying saucers\" seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during July 1947, plus a photostatic copy of a Knoxville News-Sentinel clipping about the same reports.[^2]\n\nThat makes the item useful because it preserves how an early public UFO claim was packaged for FBI headquarters: a local field-file caption, photographs, and press coverage were treated together as a Bureau enclosure set. Even a brief flying-saucer clipping and photo packet helps explain why the broader `62-HQ-83894` file kept local sightings, media reports, and photographic submissions alongside formal correspondence.[^1][^2]\n\n## FBI File 62-HQ-83894 Placement\n\nThe Department of War release page groups this serial with other segments of FBI file `62-HQ-83894` and describes that case file as covering unidentified flying-object and flying-disc material from June 1947 through July 1968.[^1] For this specific serial, the important point is narrower: the release surfaces a July 1947 Oak Ridge item whose contents are mainly evidentiary attachments rather than a finished conclusion.[^2]\n\n<PDF src=\"https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_153.pdf\" />\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Department of War PURSUE Release 01 page](https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release)\n[^2]: [65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153 remote release asset](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_153.pdf)","readingTime":"2 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-010-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-153","title":"FBI 62-HQ-83894 Serial 153","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-010-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-153","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}