PURSUE Release 01: FBI Photo B14

  Photo B14 FBI Submission

FBI Photo B14 is a one-page PDF in the Department of War's May 8, 2026 PURSUE Release 01. The release catalogs it as FBI material from an incident in the Western United States in late 2025, submitted to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office as a still image from a U.S. military system.¹²

The release metadata says the original imagery was redacted before AARO received it, that no mission report accompanied the submission, and that the operator could not positively identify the UAP. It also notes that the date visible inside the image is unreliable because the system date and time had not been set.²

  Photo B14 Sensor Frame

The PDF shows a monochrome, grainy sensor-style frame with a simplified central crosshair, horizontal range marks, and several black redaction blocks.³ Two small dark circular marks appear just right of the vertical reticle and slightly above the horizontal line. A timestamp reading 12/31/99 18:20:08 is visible at lower left, but the release metadata says the embedded date should not be treated as the incident date.²³

The release narrative also identifies a digital artifact or distortion near the edge of the lower-right redaction box.² That feature is visible as irregular speckling and blocky distortion around the redacted area, separate from the two darker marks near the reticle.³

  What Photo B14 Can Show

The public record supports a narrow conclusion: an FBI-reported UAP image reached AARO, was released with redactions, and preserved an operator's inability to identify what was shown.¹² It does not establish the objects' size, distance, altitude, speed, origin, sensor mode, platform, weather, chain of custody, or motion over time, because the release provides a single still image without the accompanying mission report.²³

Photo B14 matters because it documents a modern FBI-to-AARO UAP referral, not because it resolves the event. The two visible dark marks make the frame more specific than a catalog entry alone, while the absent mission context and explicit warning against treating the narrative as an investigative conclusion keep the record from supporting stronger claims about what the objects were.¹²³

  References

  References

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