PURSUE Release 01: FBI Photo B11

  A Thin FBI Referral

FBI Photo B11 is a one-page PDF in Department of War PURSUE Release 01, released on May 8, 2026 and cataloged as FBI material from the western United States in late 2025.¹ The catalog says the Federal Bureau of Investigation submitted the UAP report to AARO as a still image derived from a U.S. military system, with the original imagery altered by redactions before submission.¹

The release context is unusually thin. The catalog says no accompanying mission report was provided, the operator was unable to positively identify the UAP, and the date visible in the image is incorrect because the system date and time had not been set.¹ That means the visible timestamp belongs to the image artifact, not to the incident chronology supplied by the release metadata.

  What The Still Shows

The PDF contains a monochrome, grainy sensor-style image with a central crosshair reticle and several black redaction blocks overlaid across the frame.² A small dark circular mark appears in the upper-right quadrant, right of the vertical reticle and above the horizontal scale. The lower part of the frame shows an indistinct mountainous horizon, while the lower-left timestamp reads 12/31/99 18:11:06.²

Those visual details support only cautious description. The image shows a small dark feature in a redacted military-system still, but the released page does not provide range, altitude, speed, sensor mode, platform, environmental conditions, object size, or a sequence showing motion.¹² Because the mission report is absent and the embedded time is unreliable, the page cannot establish what the object was, how far away it was, or whether it moved independently.

  Useful But Not Conclusive

FBI Photo B11 matters because it preserves a modern FBI-to-AARO UAP referral in which the public evidence is reduced to a single still frame and a catalog summary.¹² It documents that an operator reported being unable to identify the object, while also showing why that unresolved status should not be stretched into a stronger conclusion than the record supports.

The record is most useful as a boundary case for interpreting PURSUE Release 01: it is recent and visually suggestive, but it lacks the supporting operational narrative needed to test ordinary explanations against the observation.¹ Its value is therefore evidentiary and procedural, not conclusive.

  FBI Photo B11 PDF

FBI Photo B11 remote release asset

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴