Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, 2015
🏛️ Department of Energy
This file contains imagery and a report documenting the circumstances surrounding a September 1, 2015, incident involving an unidentified object intruding the airspace above the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. The Pantex Plant is a sensitive national security site that contains the primary facility for the assembly, disassembly, maintenance, and life-extension of nuclear weapons. Pages 5 and 6 of this report were originally released under the PURSUE initiative in a more redacted form on May 22, 2026. (See: DOE-UAP-D001, Enhanced Pantex Imagery)
Key points
- 🏛️ Official U.S. government release — batch 4 (Jul 10, 2026)
- Official file: DOE-UAP-D005
- When: 9/1/2015
- Where: Texas
- Parts of this file are redacted by the government.
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Department of Energy. (2015). Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, 2015. https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/071026/release_04/documents/DOE-UAP-D005_Pantex-Unidentified-Object-Incident-Report_2015.pdfRelated records
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