PURSUE Release 01: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_5

PURSUE Release 01 identifies this item as an FBI PDF for 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_5, with no incident date or incident location, and links it to the war.gov release asset.¹² The release metadata describes the wider FBI 62-HQ-83894 case file as UFO and flying-disc material from June 1947 through July 1968, including investigative records, eyewitness testimony, public reports, photographs, technical proposals, convention material, researcher accounts, and press coverage.¹

  Serials 186-245 in File 62-HQ-83894

The Section 5 jacket identifies this scan as part of FBI Headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 and marks it as the serial range 186-245.² The public file is a 209-page scanned PDF, so the section is best treated as a page-image archival segment rather than a text-native report.²

The opening readable memorandum is dated July 26, 1949, from the FBI's San Antonio office to the Director. It reports that G-2, Fourth Army had alerted the FBI to a July 10, 1949 Galveston News item about the Young Men's Business Club of Alexandria, Louisiana planning a convention for people nationwide who had seen flying saucers.² The same memorandum says the proposed convention would let witnesses compare notes and that flying disks had reportedly been seen twice in Alexandria during the preceding week.²

  How the Alexandria Convention Entered FBI Files

Section 5 is not presented as a single sighting case.¹ It is a serial block inside a larger headquarters file, and its first substantive page shows one route by which public UFO reports entered federal records: a local newspaper item was noticed by Army intelligence, relayed to an FBI field office, and preserved in the Bureau's central flying-disc file.²

That makes the section useful for reconstructing the administrative life of early UFO reporting. Alongside direct witness reports and investigations elsewhere in the release, this segment preserves how rumor, press coverage, civic organizing, and interagency routing could become case-file material.¹²

  Section 5 Release Scan

65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_section_5.pdf

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1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷