FBI Photo B15 is a one-page PDF in Department of War PURSUE Release 01, published on May 8, 2026. The release metadata identifies the source agency as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, places the incident in the Western United States in late 2025, and says the material was submitted to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office as a UAP report based on a still image from a U.S. military system.1
What Photo B15 Shows
The PDF contains a single monochrome image rather than a narrative report. The frame shows a grainy sensor view with a central crosshair, several black redaction blocks, and two small dark round marks slightly right of center and just above the horizontal reticle. A timestamp at the lower left reads 12/31/99 18:20:22, but the release metadata cautions that the image date is incorrect because the system date and time were not set.12
Missing Sensor Context
The record does not include a mission report, platform details, sensor mode, range, altitude, heading, weather, sequence timing, or analyst finding. The release metadata states that the original imagery was redacted before submission to AARO and that the operator could not positively identify the UAP.1 On the public record, B15 supports only a narrow claim: two dark image features were preserved in an FBI-submitted UAP report. It does not establish whether those features were airborne objects, sensor artifacts, environmental material, or something else.
Agency Attribution, Thin Evidence
B15 matters because it shows how thin some modern UAP releases can be while still carrying agency attribution. The record has a public release date, a stated source system, and AARO submission context, but its evidentiary payload is a redacted still frame with no supporting mission narrative. That makes it useful as a provenance marker and a cautionary example: the existence of a released UAP record is not the same thing as an identification or conclusion.12