{"type":"documents","slug":"2026-pursue-release-03-040-fbi-uap-d004-fd-1057-02-northeastern-united-states-2024","title":"FBI-UAP-D004, FD-1057-02, Northeastern United States, 2024","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-03-040-fbi-uap-d004-fd-1057-02-northeastern-united-states-2024","description":"FBI FD-1057 documenting October 2024 contact with a civilian who reported repeated UAP sightings and provided video footage in the Northeastern United States.","date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["FBI"],"updated":"2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z","disclosureRating":5,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"This record is an FBI Electronic Communication filed on FD-1057 form (Rev. 5-8-10), designated FBI-UAP-D004, documenting FBI contact with a civilian observer in October 2024 regarding repeated sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena in the Northeastern United States. It was released as part of PURSUE Release 03 on June 12, 2026, by the Department of War. [^1][^2][^3]\n\n<PDF src=\"https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/FBI-UAP-D004_FD-1057-02_Northeastern-US_2024.pdf\" />\n\n## Provenance and Chain of Custody\n\nThe document is an FBI FD-1057, a standardized form the Federal Bureau of Investigation uses to record investigative activity. FD-1057 is specifically an Electronic Communication form, the internal instrument by which FBI field offices and divisions document contacts, relay information between units, and summarize witness interactions for the case file.\n\nThis particular FD-1057 carries the designation FD-1057-02, indicating it is the second Electronic Communication in the FBI-UAP-D004 case cluster. The issuing division and the names of the preparing and approving agents are redacted throughout. The document references a prior FBI contact with the same witness in August 2024, meaning this October 2024 EC follows an earlier round of information collection recorded separately.\n\nAccording to the official agency description, the subject matter described in files FBI-UAP-D004 through FBI-UAP-D008, and depicted in video footage FBI-UAP-PR001 through FBI-UAP-PR003, all correspond to incidents originating from the same general area in the Northeastern United States. This document is therefore part of a larger cluster of FBI investigative records centered on a single geographic location and a continuing series of observations.\n\nFive items are enclosed with the communication. Four are identified as video clips provided by the witness from his October 2024 observations. The fifth enclosed item is entirely redacted.\n\n## Document Content\n\nThe EC records renewed contact with a civilian whose identity, exact address, and specific location within the Northeastern United States are all redacted. The witness had initially been referred to the FBI by a liaison contact and provided his first substantive account to the Bureau in August 2024. During that initial contact, he shared a documented record -- described variously as a journal or formal document -- chronicling his observations and data collection efforts with the supervising Special Agent in Charge (SSA) and a Special Agent (SA), both redacted by name.\n\nThe October 2024 contact was prompted by renewed activity that the witness captured on video. He submitted multiple video clips from two separate evenings in October 2024 (exact dates redacted). Those recordings form the core evidentiary enclosures of this EC and are identified separately in the PURSUE release as FBI-UAP-PR001 through FBI-UAP-PR003.\n\nThe document also relays information about potential follow-up. The witness had personal travel plans and had proposed an in-person meeting with FBI representatives; however, the EC notes that this meeting was expected likely not to occur due to travel constraints. Information was relayed to an FBI field office (redacted) to establish local contact and facilitate any future communication with the witness.\n\n## Observation History and Witness Background\n\nThe witness's documented sightings begin with a first observation in the early morning hours of November 2021 (exact date redacted). From that initial event through October 2024, a span of nearly three years, he reports repeated observations of unidentified aerial objects near and on his property. He has resided at that location continuously since 2006 and states explicitly that he observed no anomalous lights or unusual activity at the property in the fifteen years before November 2021, establishing a clear demarcation.\n\nThe witness describes himself as having been skeptical of UAP-related topics prior to his November 2021 sightings. He characterized his pre-2021 disposition as that of a skeptic and states that his subsequent effort to document and understand the phenomena is motivated by a genuine desire to identify what he is observing, not by a desire for publicity or sensation.\n\n## UAP Characteristics Reported\n\nThe witness describes the observed objects as appearing to be plasma orbs. The reported behavioral and positional characteristics include:\n\n- Objects observed in static hover as well as in motion.\n- Positions ranging from above the horizon to close to the ground, within tree lines, and in or near water.\n- Observations at distances as close as approximately 200 yards from the witness's residence.\n- Recurrence across the three-year observation window.\n\nThese characteristics are drawn from what the witness communicated to FBI agents; the document does not independently assess or corroborate the plasma orb description.\n\n## Instrumentation and Physical Data\n\nBeyond visual observation and video recording, the witness reports having deployed trail cameras and other sensors on his property to systematically collect data. He reports two categories of potentially corroborating physical measurements:\n\n**Gamma radiation:** The witness states he has documented spikes in gamma radiation that correlate temporally with his sightings. The EC does not indicate whether FBI agents reviewed the underlying radiation data directly or accepted the witness's characterization.\n\n**Electronic effects:** The witness reports anomalous effects on electronics and GPS devices, consistent with an electromagnetic disturbance associated with the observed phenomena. Again, the document records this as witness-reported; no independent instrumented verification is described within this EC.\n\nThe existence of systematic instrumentation and a maintained observational journal distinguishes this witness from a casual reporter and provides a potential evidentiary basis for future follow-up, though no conclusions about the data are drawn within this document.\n\n## Corroboration and Neighbor Account\n\nThe witness reported a conversation with a neighbor to the south of his property who independently confirmed having observed strange lights in the tree line behind their own house. This represents a second independent observer from a different vantage point describing anomalous aerial lights in the same general area. The neighbor's identity is not disclosed. The witness noted that he has not discussed his observations broadly with neighbors, partly out of concern about alarming them or creating false impressions, which limits the scope of any informal neighborhood corroboration effort.\n\nThe witness further stated that he rarely observes human activity in the natural area behind his property and has identified no human activity that would plausibly account for what he is seeing.\n\n## Privacy Considerations\n\nThe witness expressed explicit concern about public disclosure. He does not want information about his observations to become public and cited a desire to protect his family's privacy and maintain positive standing with his neighbors. These concerns are reflected in the document's redaction pattern, which is unusually thorough: the witness's name, precise location, exact dates, the identities of consulting individuals, and the identities of FBI agents are all withheld.\n\n## What The Record Supports\n\nThis EC establishes that the FBI opened and maintained a case file on UAP sightings reported by a civilian in the Northeastern United States, collected video evidence directly from that witness in October 2024, and coordinated internally to assign field office responsibility for follow-up contact. It confirms that this case is part of a cluster of related FBI records (FBI-UAP-D004 through D008) and associated video evidence (FBI-UAP-PR001 through PR003) concerning the same geographic area.\n\nThe record does not establish that the objects observed were of non-human or non-prosaic origin. The plasma orb description, the gamma radiation spikes, and the GPS and electronic anomalies are all witness-reported claims documented in the EC; this document does not contain any FBI analytical conclusion, technical assessment, or independent corroboration of those claims. The neighbor's independent account of unusual lights provides some corroboration that something was observed, but does not resolve the nature of the phenomenon.\n\nThe objects remain unidentified. The record documents that the FBI took the witness seriously enough to accept video evidence, maintain a multi-document case file, and coordinate field office follow-up -- but it makes no determination about what the witness has been observing.\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Department of War PURSUE page](https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release)\n[^2]: [Department of War PURSUE data file (uap-data.csv)](https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-data.csv)\n[^3]: [FBI-UAP-D004, FD-1057-02, Northeastern United States, 2024 remote release asset](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/FBI-UAP-D004_FD-1057-02_Northeastern-US_2024.pdf)","readingTime":"7 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-03-040-fbi-uap-d004-fd-1057-02-northeastern-united-states-2024","title":"FBI-UAP-D004, FD-1057-02, Northeastern United States, 2024","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2026-pursue-release-03-040-fbi-uap-d004-fd-1057-02-northeastern-united-states-2024","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}