Serial 449 in 62-HQ-83894
Serial 449 is one of the individually surfaced FBI records from headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 in PURSUE Release 01. The release catalog identifies it as FBI material, assigns no incident date or location, and places it in a larger UFO and flying-disc case file described as covering records from June 1947 through July 1968.1
The official PDF is an 18-page scanned image record. Its opening page is a Central Records Center folder cover labeled 62-HQ-83894, volume 1, and Serial 449 only, with a declassification note derived from an FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007.2
The Saucer Magazine Memo
The first substantive page is an October 3, 1966 Los Angeles field-office memo to the FBI Director about Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. The memo says the Philadelphia Division had furnished Issue No. 24, dated July 1966, after receiving it from Jarvis H. Cooper of the IRS in Philadelphia.2
Cooper told the Bureau he subscribed because his son was interested in flying saucers and outer space. His concern was not a sighting report: he believed an article on pages 2 and 3 of the July 1966 issue advanced a Communist Party line.2
The Los Angeles memo traces the periodical to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America's headquarters on North Hoover Street in Los Angeles. It describes the disputed article as allegedly written by Master Kalen-Li Retan, head of the planet Korendor, and received by Bob Renaud on May 4, 1966 by special directional short-wave radio.2
The memo then narrows the Bureau's posture. Los Angeles reported no index information identifiable with Renaud, said no investigation had been conducted on the organization, and stated that no further action was contemplated by that office unless advised otherwise by the Bureau.2
The next scanned page is the cover of Flying Saucers International, Issue No. 24, July 1966. It presents the magazine as the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America and as a special issue for the group's Third National Flying Saucer Convention.2
A Security Concern, Not a Sighting Case
Serial 449 matters because the origin point is visible: a subscriber's concern about a civilian saucer magazine moved through the Philadelphia Division, then to Los Angeles, then to headquarters as information. It is not an FBI validation of the magazine's claims about extraterrestrial communication, and it is not framed as a UFO incident investigation.2
Within PURSUE Release 01, the record shows how 62-HQ-83894 gathered the social and political context around flying-saucer culture alongside sightings, photographs, technical claims, and public reports. This serial is especially useful for separating provenance from belief: the Bureau preserved the magazine because of a domestic-security concern attached to UFO literature, while the Los Angeles office recorded that it planned no further action.12
Released Serial PDF
65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_449.pdf