Section 3 Scanned Case File
Section 3 is the PURSUE Release 01 PDF for FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894, a UFO and flying-disc case file released as FBI material with no incident date or location assigned in the dataset.1 The public file is a 190-page image-based document titled for this Section 3 record, so the release is best treated as scanned case-file imagery rather than a searchable transcript.2
The opening case-folder imagery identifies this volume as Section 3 of serials 101-130. The first substantive memorandum is a September 4, 1947 San Francisco field-office memo to the FBI Director under the subject "Reports of Flying Discs," forwarding Hamilton Field material and requesting a Portland interview of F. M. Johnson about an alleged June 24, 1947 flying-disc sighting.2
Early Flying-Disc Routing
This section shows the Bureau handling early flying-disc reports as routed investigative leads. The San Francisco memo connects Army intelligence at Hamilton Field, FBI headquarters, the Portland field office, and a named civilian witness, making the record useful for tracing how military and FBI offices exchanged UAP-related claims during the first months of the 1947 wave.2
The Department of War release description places Section 3 inside a larger 62-HQ-83894 release spanning June 1947 through July 1968, including investigative records, eyewitness testimony, public reports, photographs, technical proposals, researcher material, and media coverage. The same metadata says the release supplies a more complete case file than the partially posted FBI Vault version, with newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.1
Section 3 PDF
65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_section_3.pdf