PURSUE Release 01: FBI Photo B3

FBI Photo B3 is a one-page FBI PDF released through Department of War PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The release metadata identifies the incident location as the Western United States, dates the underlying incident only to late 2025, and describes the file as a still image derived from a U.S. military system.¹²

The FBI submitted the material to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office as a UAP report. The release says the original imagery had already been altered with redactions before AARO received it, no accompanying mission report was provided, and the operator reported being unable to positively identify the UAP.²

  Photo B3 Reticle Still

The PDF contains a single monochrome, grainy frame with a central crosshair reticle, horizontal and vertical scale marks, and multiple black redaction bars.³ A small dark circular mark appears just to the right of the vertical reticle and slightly above the horizontal scale. The lower portion of the image shows an indistinct darker horizon-like band, but the public record does not identify the landscape, sensor mode, or platform.²³

The timestamp printed at lower left reads 12/31/99 18:11:34. The release metadata explicitly says the image date is incorrect because the system date and time had not been set, so the visible timestamp should not be used as incident timing evidence.²³

  Limited Public Evidence

The strongest supportable reading is narrow: the public record preserves an FBI-submitted AARO UAP image in which an operator could not identify a small visible mark in a redacted military-system still. It does not establish the mark's size, distance, altitude, speed, material, origin, motion, exact location, or whether it represents an object rather than an imaging artifact or background feature.²³

That limitation is why the record matters. B3 documents a recent UAP reporting artifact and shows the evidentiary shape of this part of PURSUE: provenance, redactions, and unresolved operator identification are public, while the mission report and technical context needed for independent assessment are absent.¹²³

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1. war.gov ↩ ↩²

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3. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵