The Department of War's PURSUE Release 01 identifies this record as FBI material from headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894, a UFO and flying-disc collection spanning June 1947 through July 1968.1 The release says the broader case file includes investigative records, eyewitness material, public reports, photographs, technical proposals, convention material, researcher accounts, and media coverage.1
Section 1 is a 185-page scanned PDF rather than a text-native file.2 Its opening image is an FBI Central Records Center folder jacket for 62-HQ-83894, marked as section 1 and serials 1-52, with legacy Secret handling marks, destruction warnings, and a declassification note derived from an FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007.2
The first substantive pages preserve July 1947 newspaper coverage about a Catholic priest in Grafton, Wisconsin, who reportedly found a round metal disc in his yard and notified the FBI.2 The clipping also places that report in the wider first-wave flying-disc context, including contemporary public sightings, military attention, radar concerns, and official uncertainty about whether the reports reflected aircraft, guided missiles, illusion, prank, or mass excitement.2
This section matters because its origin is not a single resolved sighting report. It is the front of an FBI headquarters file showing how early flying-disc stories entered federal recordkeeping through press clippings, routed memoranda, and agency filing practices during the summer 1947 public outbreak.12