The first document in the FBI complete Roswell file is not the Roswell teletype. It is a Washington Post article from the morning before, reporting flying disc sightings from 30 states.

FBI file 62-HQ-83894, released under PURSUE, opens not with the famous Roswell memo but with a Washington Post piece documenting that flying disc reports had already come in from 30 states before the Roswell incident even made headlines. The serial order of the file tells a different story than the myth: the discs were already in the news, and the FBI was already tracking them, before Roswell became the narrative.