FBI Flying-Discs Case File 62-HQ-83894 (1947-1968)

Of the 161 files in the May 8, 2026 PURSUE drop, fifty-seven come from the FBI — and the bulk of those are sections and serials from a single foundational case file: 62-HQ-83894, the bureau's flying-discs collection.

Sections released in this batch include sections 2 through 7 plus section 9 and section 10, alongside individual serials including Serial 130, 153, 164 and others. Together they represent the bureau's running file on civilian and military flying-disc reports from the late 1940s through the late 1960s — a period that brackets Roswell, the early Project Sign and Grudge investigations, the great wave of mid-1950s sightings, and the Condon Report.

Portions of 62-HQ-83894 have surfaced before through FOIA litigation. What's new about the WAR.GOV release is the redaction posture: the Department of War's accompanying note flags this as the most lightly-redacted public version yet, with several pages newly declassified.

What the file contains, by the bureau's own description: high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence collected from sites such as Oak Ridge, Tennessee, technical proposals on potential propulsion systems, convention programs from civilian researcher gatherings the bureau was tracking, and extensive media-coverage clippings the FBI staff indexed at the time.

For working researchers, the diff between the new release and prior versions is the actual story. Several names previously redacted are believed to now be visible. The internal analytical posture — how seriously the bureau took specific reports, what it referred up the chain, what it filed and forgot — reads more clearly than before.