Are entire paragraphs missing from the released PURSUE files?

“Yes — at least one PURSUE Release 02 document has nine consecutive paragraphs withheld entirely from declassification. The CIA's 1973 Sary Shagan intelligence report jumps from the cover sheet directly to paragraph 10, with paragraphs 1 through 9 and paragraph 12 omitted from the public release.”

The Pentagon's PURSUE declassification process treats redactions in two distinct ways: in-line blackouts (text obscured with classification-marker bars like (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6), (b)(7)) and full-paragraph withholdings (paragraphs removed entirely from the released PDF). The most prominent example of the latter in PURSUE Release 02 is the CIA's December 1973 Intelligence Information Report on Sary Shagan (catalog entry CIA-UAP-D001, UAP.WATCH ID DOC-137). The released document's numbered-paragraph sequence jumps from the cover sheet to paragraph 10, with paragraphs 1 through 9 and paragraph 12 absent from the released file — not blacked out, not marked, simply not present. The OCR'd text confirms the gap, with paragraph 10 beginning mid-context and discussing the visible-light observation of the green concentric circles. UAP.WATCH preserves the OCR'd text with the gap intact so researchers can see what paragraphs are missing.