PURSUE Release 01 lists this item as 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153, an FBI PDF record from case file 62-HQ-83894.1 The released PDF is a nine-page scan whose legible cover material identifies the item as Knoxville file 65-11, captioned "Flying Saucers" Observed Over Oak Ridge Area, with an internal-security classification line.2
Oak Ridge Photo Enclosures
The serial is an enclosure-forwarding record, not a narrative investigative report. Its content note says the Bureau was receiving two photographs of reputed "flying saucers" seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during July 1947, plus a photostatic copy of a Knoxville News-Sentinel clipping about the same reports.2
That makes the item useful because it preserves how an early public UFO claim was packaged for FBI headquarters: a local field-file caption, photographs, and press coverage were treated together as a Bureau enclosure set. Even a brief flying-saucer clipping and photo packet helps explain why the broader 62-HQ-83894 file kept local sightings, media reports, and photographic submissions alongside formal correspondence.12
FBI File 62-HQ-83894 Placement
The Department of War release page groups this serial with other segments of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 and describes that case file as covering unidentified flying-object and flying-disc material from June 1947 through July 1968.1 For this specific serial, the important point is narrower: the release surfaces a July 1947 Oak Ridge item whose contents are mainly evidentiary attachments rather than a finished conclusion.2
Serial 153 PDF
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153