FBI · 2026-01-01 · Western United States · release 5
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.
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FD-302 (Re,-. 5-8-1 0)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIO
D ate of entry ~
interviewed telephon ica l ly by Fed era l Bur eau of I nvestigati on (FBI} Special
Agent (SA)
inte rvi ewing agent , -
After be i ng advi s ed of the iden tity o f the
provided t h e f o l low ing in formati on :
on _
, 2026 t o
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2026 ,
at
. At a pp r ox imately 2200 .
no t iced a red l i ght at t he crest o f
then u nlock e d t h e gate and began
, after t h e y had
a ppr oximate l y 210 clllllllllwi th the i n tenti on o f
f o r area reconnaissance . When they arrived at the gate t o
was raining heavily , so t h ey waited f o r the rain t o subside , which it
shortly t hereafter .
driving north on
gone appr oxima te ly 25 miles , -
t h e mountain ra nge t o the i r west and pulled over t o investigate . Initia lly ,
though t the ligh t was something o n the mounta i n , but it began t o
move t o the east . Due to the mountain range being approximately 5000 feet
an d t h e c l oud cover being at a pprox i mately 7000 feet ,
s tated he
believed t h e l ight
move t o the east . Due to the mountain range being approximately 5000 feet
an d t h e c l oud cover being at a pprox i mately 7000 feet ,
s tated he
believed t h e l ight was t rave l ing somewhere between 5000 and 7000 feet above
g r ound l eve l
this light , multip l e more (appr oximate ly 6 t o 10 ) lights appeared directly
over thei r position . These ligh ts , along with t h e first - obs erved light ,
appeared t o "sync up " and trave l e d t o t he east /sou theast . During th is t i me ,
o ne o f the li g h ts d escended rap idl y
estimated appr oximate ly 1000
feet) , then dis appeare d . The o ther l ights continued east/southeast and
disappeared as we ll .
(AGL} . After approximately 15 minute s , as -
watched
descr i bed the l i ghts as r ed in color and stated t hat a first
glance , as well as wh en obs erved t h r ough Night Opt ica l Devices
lights appeared as a single point o f ligh t , howeve r upon closer obs erv ati on ,
(NODs ) , the
United States -
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Date drafted - -
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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not
to be distributed outside your agency.
on ,
(NODs ) , the
United States -
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Date drafted - -
by
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not
to be distributed outside your agency.