FBI Section 10 File
Section 10 is a 184-page PDF in PURSUE Release 01 for FBI file 62-HQ-83894, identified in the release metadata as FBI material with no incident date or incident location.1 The scanned file cover places the material in the FBI Central Records Center's headquarters file for 62-HQ-83894 and marks the folder as section 10, with serial 448 visible.2
This section is not a single sighting report. It preserves a slice of the Bureau's UFO file as it accumulated public correspondence, FBI replies, and attached flying-saucer movement publications during 1966.2 A September 6, 1966 reply signed for J. Edgar Hoover tells a New Hampshire correspondent that the FBI was an investigative agency and would not evaluate an organization, publication, or individual for her, while still making her communication part of the record.2
A NICAP Member's Concern
The correspondent's August 31, 1966 letter identifies her as a NICAP member, describes subscribing to AFSCA material, and asks whether receiving the report could connect her name with communism.2 That exchange is valuable because it shows a recurring function of the file: the Bureau preserved the social and political anxieties surrounding civilian UFO organizations, not just claims of objects in the sky.
A bundled publication page broadens the record from one citizen inquiry into a snapshot of the mid-1960s flying-saucer network. A "Flying Saucer News in Brief" page lists 1966 conventions in Reno, Seattle, Alamogordo, Spokane, Giant Rock, and Berkeley, and says the publication formerly called "UFO International" had become "Flying Saucers International."2 The same material mixes convention notices, contactee personalities, extraterrestrial claims, anti-war commentary, and appeals to "Universal Economics," showing how UFO interest overlapped with New Age, Cold War, and countercultural themes.2
Civilian UFO Networks in Federal Files
For the PURSUE release, section 10 matters less as evidence of a discrete incident than as documentation of what the FBI considered worth retaining under 62-HQ-83894. It places the Bureau's formal posture beside the public material it received: cautious administrative replies on one side, and a crowded civilian UFO ecosystem on the other.2 In that sense, it helps readers interpret the larger case file as an archive of information flow: sightings, organizations, publications, fears, and claims moving into federal records through correspondence.
Released Section 10 PDF
65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_section_10.pdf