UFO report at the Pantex plant: enhanced radar image (DOE)
Official file: DOE-UAP-D001, Enhanced PANTEX Imagery
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Key facts
- Official file ID
- DOE-UAP-D1 (cited as DOE-UAP-D001 in this file)
- Document type
- Document
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Released in
- R02 · 2026-05-22
- Incident date
- not indicated
- Incident location
- Pages legible
- 2/2
- VIRIN
- 260508-O-D0360-1077
Official description
A Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report that includes an enhanced image from ground surveillance radar tower.
✦ AI summary
This is a 2-page image excerpt (pages 5 and 6 of a 6-page original) from a 'Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report' by Pantex (managed and operated by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC). The pages are marked UCNI (Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information). Page 5, titled 'Image from Ground Surveillance Radar Tower', shows the photograph itself redacted: a solid gray box labeled '(b)(3) (UCNI)' fills the image area, with only a small red circle marker visible near the top right. Page 6, titled 'Sandia National Labs Enhanced Images of the Object', shows two stacked, heavily blurred, pixelated enhanced images, each a dark greenish-black blob that is wider at the top and tapers to a narrow point at the bottom, against a light background. No narrative, date, witness account or analytical conclusion appears in the document.
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Places mentioned in the document
Other places the document refers to, besides its official location.
- Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas, USAIncident · 2015
and Operated by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC) UCNI Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report Image from Ground Surveillance Radar Tower [The
▸Transcript(2 of 2 pages legible)
[PAGE 1] Pantex (Managed and Operated by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC) UCNI Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report Image from Ground Surveillance Radar Tower [The photograph itself is REDACTED: a solid gray rectangle labeled "(b)(3) (UCNI)" occupies the space where the radar-tower image would be. Above the redacted box, in the blank image area, a small red circle with a center dot is visible near the top right (annotation/marker), otherwise blank.] UCNI Page 5 of 6 [PAGE 2] Pantex (Managed and Operated by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC) UCNI Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report Sandia National Labs Enhanced Images of the Object [Photograph: two heavily blurred/pixelated enhanced images, stacked vertically, each showing a dark greenish-black blob roughly bell- or chalice-shaped (wider rounded top tapering to a narrow stem/point at the bottom) against a white/light background -- consistent with a digitally enhanced, out-of-focus zoom of a distant object. The lower image is a smaller, similarly shaped blob. No readable labels or captions accompany the images themselves.] UCNI Page 6 of 6
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Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo