PURSUE Release 01: FBI Photo A4

  FBI Photo A4 Catalog Entry

FBI Photo A4 is an image entry in the Department of War's May 8, 2026 PURSUE Release 01. The catalog identifies it as FBI material submitted to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office as a still image derived from a U.S. government system. The row gives only a broad incident date, Late 2025, and lists the incident location as N/A; the source description separately states that the event's date and location were not provided.¹

The source description says the original imagery was altered with redactions before submission to AARO. It also says no accompanying mission report was provided, and that the operator reported being unable to positively identify the UAP.¹

  Reticle View With Redactions

The released PNG is a monochrome frame with a mottled background, black redaction blocks, and a central crosshair reticle. A small dark circular mark appears just below and to the right of the reticle center. That matches the release narrative description, which characterizes the image as informational rather than an analytical judgment or investigative conclusion.¹²

The image can support a narrow observation: the public record contains a redacted sensor-like still frame in which a dark circular feature is visible near the center of a reticle. It cannot, by itself, establish the object's range, scale, speed, altitude, source platform, exact date, location, or identity. The absence of a mission report matters because there is no accompanying operational context to test those possibilities against.¹

  A Standalone Image With Limits

FBI Photo A4 is useful less as proof of what the object was than as evidence of how PURSUE Release 01 handles some modern UAP image records. The release preserves the public image and basic handling notes, but it withholds or lacks the contextual material that would normally be needed for stronger analysis. Its value is therefore evidentiary and procedural: it documents that an FBI-originated, redacted government-system still was sent to AARO, while also showing the limits of interpretation when the public file is only a standalone image.¹²

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. war.gov ↩ ↩²