PURSUE Release 01: FBI Photo B2

  FBI Referral to AARO

FBI Photo B2 is a one-page FBI PDF in the Department of War's PURSUE Release 01, cleared for release on May 8, 2026.¹ The release catalog lists the incident date as late 2025 and the incident location as Western United States, and identifies the file as FBI material submitted to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.¹²

The release description says the Federal Bureau of Investigation submitted a UAP report consisting of a still image derived from a U.S. military system in 2025. The original imagery had redactions before being submitted to AARO; no accompanying mission report was provided; the operator reported they could not positively identify the UAP; and the visible image date is incorrect because the system date and time were not set.²

  Reticle Still Image

The PDF contains a single monochrome, grainy image with a central crosshair reticle, horizontal and vertical scale marks, black redaction blocks, and a hazy lower background that resembles a distant mountain range or cloud formation.³ A small dark circular mark appears above and to the right of the reticle center. The bottom-left timestamp reads 12/31/99 18:11:27, but release metadata warns that the system clock was not set, so that timestamp should not be treated as the incident date.²³

  Limits of the Evidence

The record supports a narrow factual claim: an FBI-originated referral to AARO preserved a redacted still image from a military system after an operator could not identify a visible object. It does not establish the object's size, distance, altitude, speed, material, origin, or motion, and it does not provide sensor settings, platform context, environmental conditions, or a mission narrative that would allow independent reconstruction.²³

That limitation is the point of the page. FBI Photo B2 matters because it shows how PURSUE Release 01 can make a recent UAP reporting artifact public while still leaving the core identification problem unresolved. Its value is provenance and disclosure context: it records a reported non-identification, the redacted visual evidence attached to it, and the missing context that prevents stronger conclusions.¹²³

  FBI Photo B2 Asset

FBI Photo B2 remote release asset

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴