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FBI UFO Photo B8: Western US Still Image, 2025

Official file: FBI Photo B008

Published May 8, 2026 · Updated Jul 19, 2026

Incident date

Late 2025

Incident location

Western United States

Agency

FBI

Released in

R01 · 2026-05-08

File type

Document

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Key facts

Document type: Document
Agency: FBI
Released in: R01 · 2026-05-08
Incident date: Late 2025
Incident location: Western United States
Coordinates: 40, -113
Pages legible: 0/1
VIRIN: 260508-O-D0360-1036

Official description

military system in 2025. The original imagery was altered with redactions before being submitted to AARO. An accompanying mission report was not provided. The operator reported that they were unable to positively identify the UAP. The date in the image is incorrect due to system date/time not being set. Narrative Description: The monochrome image displays a grainy texture with a central crosshair reticle. A small, dark, circular object is visible just right of the center of the reticle in the top right quadrant. The background shows an indistinct mountain range. This narrative description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.

About this type of document

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of a still image derived from a U.S.

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✦ AI summary

FBI Photo B8 is a single-page image PDF from the Department of War declassified UAP release series, catalogued as an FBI-sourced UAP-related photograph. The PDF contains no meaningful embedded OCR text layer (image only, with only stray non-textual marks detected), so no caption, date, location, or descriptive metadata could be extracted from the file itself. This appears to be a standalone photographic exhibit rather than a text report; visual review of the image would be required to describe its content.

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[PAGE 1] [Diagram: a grayscale electro-optical/IR sensor display frame, not a text document. A wide black redaction bar spans the full width across the top of the frame. A crosshair reticle is centered in the frame with tick-mark range scales on both the horizontal and vertical axes, numbered 5, 10, 15 outward from center in both directions (left/right and up/down); a single small dark dot (the tracked object) sits just right of center, near the crosshair. Six black redaction bars overlay on-screen data/text readouts in two columns of three, left and right of the reticle (likely sensor telemetry such as altitude, heading, or target data, fully redacted). A burned-in timestamp reads "12/31/99 18:10:18" at the bottom left (a default/unset system clock value, not necessarily the actual capture date). No other legible text is present on the frame.]

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Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo