FD-302, “Airborne Lights and Triangle,” 2002, 2023-2024
🏛️ FBI
This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a March 2024 interview with a former U.S. military pilot, in which the interviewee describes several incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in 2023 and 2024. The interviewee also recalls a 2002 incident potentially involving UAP, while deployed as a military reservist in Afghanistan. An FBI digital rendering based upon the observer’s description accompanies this document, under the title FBI-UAP-D025.
Key points
- 🏛️ Official U.S. government release — batch 5 (Aug 7, 2026)
- Official file: FBI-UAP-D024
- When: 2002, 2023-2024
- Where: Northeastern U.S.; Afghanistan
- Parts of this file are redacted by the government.
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FBI. (2002). FD-302, “Airborne Lights and Triangle,” 2002, 2023-2024. https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_05/Aug_07/documents/FBI-UAP-D024_FD-302_Airborne-Lights-and-Triangle_2002_2023-2024.pdfRelated records
Digital Rendering 2, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026
FBI
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two U.S. persons, as described in FBI-UAP-D040. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prepared this digital rendering in 2026 as a visual aid in support of the PURSUE initiative.
Digital Rendering 1, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026
FBI
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two U.S. persons, as described in FBI-UAP-D040. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) prepared this digital rendering in 2026 as a visual aid in support of the PURSUE initiative.
FD-302, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026
FBI
This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a 2026 telephonic interview with a U.S. person, in which the interviewee describes two incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. A second individual who was present during the incidents at the time also provided an interview, recorded in this collection as “FBI-UAP-D037.” Two FBI digital renderings based upon the observers’ descriptions accompany this document, under the titles FBI-UAP-D041 and FBI-UAP-D042.
Digital Rendering 2, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026
FBI
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two U.S. persons, as described in FBI-UAP-D037. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prepared this digital rendering in 2026 as a visual aid in support of the PURSUE initiative.