Serial 130 is one of the individually surfaced FBI records from 62-HQ-83894, the Bureau headquarters file that PURSUE Release 01 describes as covering UFO and flying-disc material from June 1947 through July 1968.1 The release row gives no incident date or location, so the value of the record is not as a single sighting report. It is a small example of how early public flying-saucer mail entered FBI headquarters handling during the first national wave of reports.1
The visible case-file pages associated with this serial begin with a July 14, 1947 letter to J. Edgar Hoover from George Pluskata of Brooklyn, New York. Pluskata reacted to contemporary headlines about flying saucers, sky discs, saucers as tricks of vision, and reports of airliner crews seeing multiple flying disks; he treated the stories as a possible security or psychological problem, not merely a newspaper curiosity.2
The following page is a July 23, 1947 memorandum for D. M. Ladd. It recommends attaching a Bureau bulletin to the field for assistance in handling the matter, showing the administrative path from public correspondence into FBI field guidance rather than an investigative conclusion about the reported objects.2
Public Pressure in Bureau Files
This serial is useful because it captures the Bureau's intake layer: a citizen tried to make sense of the flying-saucer press cycle, headquarters preserved the correspondence in the UFO case file, and an internal note routed the issue toward field handling. In the larger PURSUE release, that makes Serial 130 a baseline document for the public-pressure side of 62-HQ-83894, beside later investigative records, witness reports, photographs, and technical claims described in the same release set.1