65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_001
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.
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test Finds 'Whirring·' Disc s?'' In. Yard and Holds It for FBI Mr. Quinn Tamm l~pnes~ at Gnfton, Wis., sa1 cial ,•f!~rl might be a.!Jj~ce. ious \'Jlyi:n!t u rs:-l'ra'd'_:-crnstred States. l>ltt Brasky's disc was the 18 oldln 7frer the ffw.ral found-if that is whal wa· found. IJ seplfi! t hm·ch at Grafton_. 45 unsuccessful speed oash in an a\• eard swishing ~nd wlurnng discs and the Army and scit'i\fo;LSI ~ he 1,:ud, he hea1·d a thud and alto-coast l'cporls a icut the d1sc,- 1mild explosion. zooming lb.rough t:1e sky were fact He in\'estigaled and found a or fancy. ~heel metal disc !\bout 18 inches in Army planes scoured the north- diameter, resembling a circularlwest Pacific skies for them without ( saw blade. success today and one "eyewitness" •·Tlte object ,-till was warm,1 even reported ha, illf. seen one of j" weighed about four or five pounds the disc~ take off in Arizona. A and was about one eighth of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited inch thick," he said. some paper "discs·• he ~aiil he had 1 There was a hole about one seen floating over St. Louis. the disc, he said, and in the open- The flymg saucers which ha,·e Ing were •·gadget~ and some been reported ~}timming tlu·ough wires.'' • Amedca's skin at speeds up lo The priest ~aid l\e did not know l200 mile!I have elucled the usual i { his disco~ery. were important \lJ keen eye of radar. :md nQiilled the 'FBI or"Jii~,,.d.,
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up objects in the sky 200 miles "Everytime someone come, up ,•irtually all the ~au,·ers is that
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that the Air Jo'orces had decided imal(inations are .sure they ha,1' seemed merely round and flat.
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had been ehe~klng It f~r 10 days. "The critical faculty ln m~n, thel the trick~ that eyes play. 'l'hi~
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Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of FBI's 104 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the FBI agency block it ranks #30 of 104 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #194 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (194 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
For the broader cluster context, this file is part of FBI Case 62-HQ-83894 - the 18-PDF FBI central case file covering 1947-1968. The cluster page walks through all 18 member files with regional grouping, sensor breakdown, and standout analysis.
Anomalousness Index: 58/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
Reported by a witness with no instrumented record. The lowest tier in the rubric's sensor axis. Eyewitness perception in field conditions, even when the witness is highly credentialed, scores below capture by any instrumented modality. This report reached the federal record through the FBI.
Federal agency personnel (FBI investigators or equivalent) recording the report into the federal investigative system. Investigative credentials, but typically operating in a reactive rather than mission-active posture.
Single-witness or single-instrument capture. This is the corroboration tier for the overwhelming majority of the PURSUE archive on the released metadata - the rubric records the honest limit of the underlying record rather than inferring multi-witness corroboration that the released summaries do not establish. A small number of files with an independent second witness or instrument score on the multi-witness/multi-instrument tier above this one.
No kinematic measurements - speed, acceleration, vector - are published in the released file with sufficient precision to score on the kinematic axis. The rubric does not infer kinematic anomaly from narrative observer estimates. Every file in the archive carries this value, which is itself an observation about the disclosure: kinematic-grade telemetry was not part of what was released.
A conventional candidate explanation has been considered but is not dispositive. Every file in the archive scores this way - reflecting that the underlying release metadata systematically caveats strong determinations in either direction. The released summaries warn against reading them as conclusive analytical judgments, and the rubric respects that.
Released as open after formal review by the originating agency. The file passed through a review process and was published in that posture - a stronger disposition signal than 'unresolved with no review,' because review has occurred and the open status is the agency's published conclusion.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 58/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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FBI-UAP-PR004, “Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025
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Verification
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