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Location
Western United States
All 58 declassified cases list this as the incident's official location. Documented incidents span 1996 to 2026.
3 agencies are involved: Department of War, FBI, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The case files here include documents, videos, and images. 32 cases carry visible redactions.
Where these cases happened
Cases
| File ID | Date | Agency | Type | Pages read | Official | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOW-UAP-D176 | June, 2026 | Department of War | Document | 3/3 | Official | This is an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Memorandum for Record, issued on Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security letterhead, documenting a witness debrief about a UAP observation in 2026. The ex… |
| FBI-UAP-D043 | June, 2026 | FBI | Document | 2/11 | Official | This is an FBI FD-302 form from 2026 that transcribes, verbatim, an "Unidentified Aerial Object Observation Report" co-signed by FBI special agents (names, date and place redacted). According to the statement, during an evening shift a coll… |
| FBI-UAP-D032 | 2026 | FBI | Document | 2/2 | Official | A 2-page FD-302, the FBI's standard interview report form, recording an interview with a redacted individual on a date given only as 2026; the document says he has no aviation expertise and a redacted amount of private pilot time. At approx… |
| FBI-UAP-D033 | 2026 | FBI | Document | 2/2 | Official | A 2-page FD-302 built around a signed statement from a redacted FBI special agent, describing a follow-up observation on the evening of a redacted date in 2026 at the same general area referenced in a prior statement. While conducting obser… |
| FBI-UAP-D037 | 2026 | FBI | Document | 3/3 | Official | A 3-page FD-302 documenting an FBI interview, conducted by FBI special agents, of a redacted witness traveling with a companion on a redacted date in 2026. Leaving a location around 7:45 p.m. in rainy, heavily clouded conditions, the witnes… |
| FBI-UAP-D038 | 2026 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | A digitally rendered reconstruction of a desert scene at dusk. A person stands in silhouette beside a dark SUV — its red tail lights lit — at the edge of a scrubland plateau, facing a mountain ridge under a hazy amber sunset sky. Above the… |
| FBI-UAP-D039 | 2026 | FBI | Document | 0/3 | Official | A digitally rendered reconstruction presented as a binocular / night-vision view — two overlapping circular fields with a teal-cyan tint. In the left field, a bright white glowing orb is encircled by concentric ring-shaped halos. The right… |
| FBI-UAP-D040 | 2026 | FBI | Document | 2/2 | Official | A 2-page FD-302 documenting a telephonic FBI interview of a redacted witness about events on a redacted date in 2026. At about 2100, the witness left to drive north for area reconnaissance, waited at a gate for heavy rain to subside, and at… |
| FBI-UAP-D041 | 2026 | FBI | Document | 0/6 | Official | Six-page PDF containing a sequence of digital renderings rather than a text document; none of the pages carries a text layer. All six frames share one fixed widescreen viewpoint: an open high-desert basin at dusk, with scrub and boulders in… |
| FBI-UAP-D042 | 2026 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | A digitally rendered reconstruction presented as a binocular / night-vision view — two overlapping circular fields with a teal-cyan tint. A mountain range lines the horizon above a rocky desert foreground. A bright white light traces a curv… |
| FBI-UAP-PR007 | 2026 | FBI | Video | — | Official | Grainy black-and-white footage of an open sky with a dark cloud bank across the upper portion of the frame, shot with no visible HUD, crosshair, telemetry, or censorship blocks, suggesting a plain recapture rather than a military sensor ove… |
| ODNI-UAP-D001 | 2025 | Office of the Director of National Intelligence | Document | 2/2 | Official | A first-person narrative (2 pages, complete document) released by ODNI in the PURSUE collection, written by an unnamed "senior U.S. intelligence officer" (the file name marks it as a USPER narrative) about a multi-hour helicopter mission ov… |
| FBI UFO Photo B1: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image: a grayscale video-frame still with a central crosshair and horizontal and vertical scale marks (0 to 15 on each side of the horizontal axis), a faint hazy mountain silhouette at the lower right, and a timestamp… |
| FBI UFO Photo B2: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | FBI Photo B2 is a single-page image from the declassified UAP release. It shows a grayscale sensor frame overlaid with a graduated crosshair reticle (scale 15-10-5-0-5-10-15) and a small dark dot near the center. Several header and side-lab… |
| FBI UFO Photo B3: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | FBI Photo B3 is a single-page photographic exhibit from the declassified UAP release, a grayscale infrared-style frame overlaid with a measurement reticle (a horizontal scale running 15-10-5-0-5-10-15 on each side of center, plus a vertical… |
| FBI UFO Photo B4: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | FBI Photo B4 is a single-page image from the FBI-sourced photograph series of the declassified UAP release. The transcript records no caption, date, location or description. The image is an infrared or video frame with a central crosshair a… |
| FBI UFO Photo B5: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | FBI Photo B5 is a single-page image from the FBI-sourced photograph series of the declassified UAP release. The transcript records no caption, date, location or description, and the page has no legible text other than a timestamp reading 12… |
| FBI UFO Photo B6: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | FBI Photo B6 is a single-page image from the declassified UAP release. It shows an infrared-style sensor still with a reticle crosshair scaled from 0 to 15 in each direction, a small dark object near the top center, redacted blocks across t… |
| FBI UFO Photo B7: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | FBI Photo B7 is a single-page image from the FBI-sourced photograph series of the declassified UAP release. It shows a grayscale sensor image with a centered crosshair reticle and a horizontal scale marked 15 to 0 to 15. A small dark object… |
| FBI UFO Photo B8: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | 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… |
| FBI UFO Photo B9: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image-only PDF (no embedded text/OCR layer), part of a sequential FBI photographic exhibit set (b1 through b24) released in DOW/FBI UAP release_1. The rendered page shows a grayscale scanned photograph or negative with… |
| FBI UFO Photo B10: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | A single-page image-only PDF (no embedded text), one of a numbered series of FBI photo files (b010). The page is a grayscale infrared- or sensor-style still frame with a white crosshair reticle and ruler-style tick marks labeled 5, 10 and 1… |
| FBI UFO Photo B11: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image-only PDF (no embedded OCR text layer), part of a sequential FBI photographic/photo-analysis exhibit set (b1 through b24) released in DOW/FBI UAP release_1. The rendered page follows a consistent template seen acr… |
| FBI UFO Photo B12: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | A single-page image: a grainy grayscale sensor frame with a central crosshair reticle, with a scale ticked and numbered 5, 10 and 15 to each side of center along the horizontal axis. A single small dark dot appears above and slightly to the… |
| FBI UFO Photo B13: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image-only PDF (no embedded OCR text layer), part of a sequential FBI photographic/photo-analysis exhibit set (b1 through b24) released in DOW/FBI UAP release_1. The rendered page follows a consistent template seen acr… |
| FBI UFO Photo B14: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page document consisting of a grayscale sensor image. A crosshair is centered in the frame, with two small dark spots just to the right of and above the crosshair center. Black redaction boxes cover areas across the top and… |
| FBI UFO Photo B15: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image-only exhibit from the FBI photo series (item b015). The page is a grayscale, film-grain frame with a black redaction bar across the top and four further black redaction bars, two along the left edge and two along… |
| FBI UFO Photo B16: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image. The transcript describes it as a grayscale image with a crosshair reticle and a small dark object near the center, with heavy black redaction bars across the top and at both sides. A timestamp reads 12/31/99 18:… |
| FBI UFO Photo B17: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 1/1 | Official | FBI Photo B17 is a single-page photographic exhibit: a grayscale, sensor/thermal-style image heavily redacted with solid black bars (one large bar across the top and two smaller bars at each of the four corners or edges). A white crosshair… |
| FBI UFO Photo B18: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image-only PDF (no embedded OCR text layer), part of a sequential FBI photographic/photo-analysis exhibit set (b1 through b24) released in DOW/FBI UAP release_1. The rendered page follows a consistent template seen acr… |
| FBI UFO Photo B19: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | FBI Photo B19 is a single-page image from the FBI-sourced photograph series of the declassified UAP release. The transcript records no caption, date, location or description. The image is a grayscale sensor-style still frame with a white cr… |
| FBI UFO Photo B20: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | A single-page image-only PDF (no embedded text), one of a numbered series of FBI photo files (b020). The page is a grayscale sensor-style frame with a graduated crosshair reticle (scale 15-10-5-0-5-10-15) and a small dark dot near the cente… |
| FBI UFO Photo B21: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | FBI Photo B21 is a single-page image from the declassified UAP release. It shows a grayscale, infrared-style frame with a measurement reticle (horizontal scale 15-10-5-0-5-10-15 on each side, plus a vertical scale) and one small, dark, elon… |
| FBI UFO Photo B22: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image. The transcript describes it as a noisy grayscale video frame with a white crosshair and a horizontal scale labelled "3" at each end, with two small dark blobs just above and to the right of the center. A black r… |
| FBI UFO Photo B23: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | A single-page image-only PDF (no embedded text), one of a numbered series of FBI photo files (b023). The page is a grayscale, infrared-style video frame with a white crosshair and a horizontal scale labeled "3" at each end; a small dark elo… |
| FBI UFO Photo B24: Western US Still Image, 2025 | Late 2025 | FBI | Document | 0/1 | Official | This is a single-page image-only PDF (no embedded OCR text layer), part of a sequential FBI photographic/photo-analysis exhibit set (b1 through b24) released in DOW/FBI UAP release_1. The rendered page follows a consistent template seen acr… |
| DOW-UAP-D077 | 2023 | Department of War | Document | 4/4 | Official | DOW-UAP-D077 is an UNCLASSIFIED memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Intelligence and Security, dated 05 June 2026, subject: "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)… |
| DOW-UAP-D078 | October, 2023 | Department of War | Document | 0/1 | Official | DOW-UAP-D078 is a single-page notional map graphic, marked UNCLASSIFIED, showing a grayscale overhead view of the western United States with four observer positions (blue circles) and four reported incidents. Its caption says the image is a… |
| DOW-UAP-D079 | October, 2023 | Department of War | Document | 2/2 | Official | DOW-UAP-D079 is an unclassified memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Intelligence and Security, dated 2 June 2026, presenting the narrative of "Witness 1," one of several U.S. federal law enforcement special… |
| DOW-UAP-D080 | October, 2023 | Department of War | Document | 8/8 | Official | DOW-UAP-D080 is an UNCLASSIFIED memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security, dated 02 June 2026, presenting the first-hand narrative of 'Witness 2' to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution O… |
| DOW-UAP-D081 | October, 2023 | Department of War | Document | 2/2 | Official | DOW-UAP-D081 is an UNCLASSIFIED memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Intelligence and Security, dated 02 June 2026, presenting the verbatim first-hand narrative of "Witness 3," another federal law enforcement… |
| DOW-UAP-D082 | October, 2023 | Department of War | Document | 3/3 | Official | DOW-UAP-D082 is an unclassified memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Intelligence and Security, dated 2 June 2026, presenting the first-hand narrative of "Witness 4," one of several U.S. federal law enforceme… |
| DOW-UAP-D083 | October, 2023 | Department of War | Document | 5/5 | Official | DOW-UAP-D083 is an UNCLASSIFIED memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Intelligence and Security, dated 02 June 2026, presenting the detailed, numbered-log-style first-hand narrative of "Witness 5" (writing alo… |
| FBI-UAP-D014 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Digital reconstruction of a desert highway at dusk. A two-lane road runs straight toward dark silhouetted hills under a fading orange and blue twilight sky. A glowing red-orange orb hovers above the ridgeline, marked with small red annotati… |
| FBI-UAP-D015 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Digital reconstruction of the same desert road scene at twilight, with the highway leading toward dark hills. A red-orange glowing orb sits lower in the sky than in the companion image, tagged with a small red annotation marker. The sky fad… |
| FBI-UAP-D016 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Night-time digital reconstruction showing two human figures in silhouette standing on high desert terrain, facing away from the viewer. A single yellow-white point of light hangs in the star-filled deep blue sky above a distant ridgeline. T… |
| FBI-UAP-D017 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Night reconstruction with two silhouetted observers on a desert rise watching a bright yellow-white orb in a starry blue sky. The orb sits to the right of the figures, well above a dark eroded ridgeline. Faint stars are scattered across the… |
| FBI-UAP-D018 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Night reconstruction of two silhouetted figures on desert terrain observing a small orange-yellow light in the star-filled sky. The light is dimmer and more compact than in the related renderings, positioned above the dark ridge to the righ… |
| FBI-UAP-D019 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Night reconstruction showing two observers in silhouette on a desert ridge. A bright yellow-white orb sits at right, and a short horizontal row of small red points extends to its left across the dark blue starry sky. |
| FBI-UAP-D020 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Night reconstruction with two silhouetted witnesses on desert ground. A bright yellow-white orb appears at the right, trailed by a longer line of evenly spaced small red points running left across the starry sky above the ridgeline. |
| FBI-UAP-D021 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Digital reconstruction of a desert canyon at dusk with layered red rock mesas and green scrub, a paved road crossing the lower frame. A large textured orange-red sphere hovers in the deep blue sky just above the rock formation, its surface… |
| FBI-UAP-D022 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Digital reconstruction viewed from inside a car at night. A driver and front passenger are silhouetted against the warm glow of the dashboard, with the rear-view mirror visible. Through the windshield, a bright yellow-white orb hovers over… |
| FBI-UAP-D023 | October, 2023 | FBI | Image | — | Official | Night reconstruction showing two silhouetted figures standing beside a car with its headlights on, in open desert. An arc of small red lights curves across the dark sky above distant mountains, with a few white points visible lower near the… |
| FBI-UAP-PR005 | October, 2023 | FBI | Video | — | Official | Color night-time footage shows a dark, rugged mountain ridge silhouette with cactus and scrub vegetation in the foreground, set against a deep blue dusk or night sky scattered with visible stars. No distinct anomalous object, light, or craf… |
| FBI-UAP-PR006 | October, 2023 | FBI | Video | — | Official | Color computer-generated recreation of a dusk/night scene: a dark mountain silhouette against a gradient sky, with an orange glow near the horizon (city light pollution) fading into deep blue with visible stars. Small red-orange dots appear… |
| AARO Briefing: UFO Orb Sightings in Western US, 2023 | 2023 | Department of War | Document | 4/4 | Official | This is a 4-page AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) briefing slide deck ('western_us_event_slides,' dated 5.08.2026) documenting four distinct UAP sighting events involving federal law enforcement special agents (identified only as… |
| DOW-UAP-PR108 | 2020 | Department of War | Video | — | Official | Grayscale infrared frame sampled during a segment the official description labels as having no content. Only a stationary calibration-style reticle with tick marks (top, bottom, left, right) and a small center crosshair is visible on a feat… |
| DOW-UAP-PR113 | 1996 | Department of War | Video | — | Official | Black-and-white infrared sensor footage looking down at mountainous desert terrain in the western United States. A tactical HUD overlay shows distance-ring range markers (5 through 30), a central crosshair, and a small circular tracking ret… |
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