{"type":"documents","slug":"2026-pursue-release-01-016-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-sub-a","title":"FBI 62-HQ-83894 Sub A","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-016-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-sub-a","description":"FBI Subfile A preserves scanned UFO press clippings, routing sheets, and case markings from file 62-HQ-83894.","date":"2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["FBI"],"disclosureRating":5,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"## FBI Subfile A Jacket and Clippings\n\nThis PURSUE Release 01 document is an FBI PDF record for `65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A`, released with no listed incident date or incident location.[^1] The official asset is a 124-page scanned PDF hosted by the Department of War.[^2]\n\nSubfile A is useful because it preserves the archival handling of UFO material, not just the claims themselves. Its opening page is a U.S. Department of Justice/FBI Central Records Center jacket for case `62-83894`, marked `Sub A`, `Serial # 1`, and `OPEN`, with declassification authority derived from the FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007.[^3]\n\nThe early pages show how public UFO stories moved into Bureau files. One Detroit Division item attaches a May 25, 1960 Detroit Free Press clipping about Grand Blanc, Michigan resident Joseph Perry, whose color slide of a saucer-like object had reportedly drawn attention from Washington, Pentagon personnel, an unidentified flying object group, and a national magazine. The same page identifies the case as `UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT; JOSEPH PERRY, GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN - COMPLAINANT`.[^4]\n\nThe next scanned item is a Central Research Section newspaper clipping about an American Airlines DC-6 flight from Newark to Detroit. The clipping reports that Capt. Peter Killian and co-pilot John Dee said three bright objects followed the aircraft for about 45 minutes before its landing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.[^5]\n\n## How UFO Reports Entered 62-HQ-83894\n\nThe release metadata places this file inside the larger FBI `62-HQ-83894` case file, which PURSUE describes as containing investigative records, eyewitness testimony, public reports, photographic evidence, technical proposals, convention material, researcher accounts, and media coverage from June 1947 through July 1968.[^1] The same release description says the PURSUE version presents the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions compared with the partly posted FBI Vault version.[^1]\n\nSubfile A therefore matters as evidence of process. It shows press clippings, public complainants, FBI division routing, central research review, file jackets, handwritten case markings, and received/not-recorded stamps living in the same record stream. For researchers, that makes it a compact example of how mid-century UFO reports could become part of a headquarters file even when the underlying evidence was a newspaper story, a civilian photograph, or a forwarded aviation account.\n\n<PDF src=\"https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_sub_a.pdf\" />\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Department of War PURSUE Release 01 page](https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release)\n\n[^2]: [65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A remote release asset](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_sub_a.pdf)\n\n[^3]: [65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A remote release asset, page 1](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_sub_a.pdf#page=1)\n\n[^4]: [65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A remote release asset, page 2](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_sub_a.pdf#page=2)\n\n[^5]: [65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A remote release asset, page 3](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_sub_a.pdf#page=3)","readingTime":"3 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-016-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-sub-a","title":"FBI 62-HQ-83894 Sub A","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2026-pursue-release-01-016-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-sub-a","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}