This is an FBI-submitted report forwarded to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), released May 8, 2026 under the PURSUE Release 01 program. The document consists of a single still image, monochrome and grainy, captured by a U.S. military system in late 2025 over the western United States. The image shows two small, dark, elongated objects near the center-bottom-right of the frame, with a simplified crosshair overlay. The FBI was unable to positively identify the objects. No accompanying mission report was provided.
Several factors limit analytical value: the original imagery was redacted before submission to AARO, no mission report accompanies it, and the system's date/time was not properly configured, causing the embedded timestamp to display as 12/31/99 — rendering temporal metadata unreliable. The absence of contextual documentation, combined with pre-submission redactions applied by the originating agency, means the record is incomplete as submitted. The operator's inability to identify the objects is noted but no investigative conclusion has been reached.
Redactions present in this record. Black bars protect identities of eyewitnesses, locations of facilities, or non-UAP-related sensitive material.