PURSUE Release 01: FBI Photo B5

  Late-2025 FBI Still

FBI Photo B5 is a one-page PDF in the Department of War's May 8, 2026 PURSUE Release 01. The release identifies 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 derived from a U.S. military system.¹²

The release description says the original imagery was altered with redactions before AARO received it. It also says no accompanying mission report was provided, the operator reported being 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.²

  Photo B5 Sensor Frame

The PDF contains a monochrome, grainy sensor-style frame with a central crosshair reticle, horizontal and vertical scale marks, and multiple black redaction blocks.³ A timestamp reading 12/31/99 18:12:20 appears at lower left, but the release metadata places the incident in late 2025 and warns that the embedded image date is unreliable.²³

The public description states that no distinct objects are clearly visible within the central area of the frame. The background shows an indistinct formation, possibly a mountain range, but the visible material does not supply enough detail to identify terrain, platform position, range, altitude, speed, motion, or sensor mode.²³

  What The Frame Cannot Show

The public record supports a narrow finding: an FBI-submitted UAP report included a redacted still frame from a U.S. military system, and the operator could not positively identify what was being reported.¹² It does not establish that a discrete object can be seen in the released frame, nor does it establish the object's identity, physical characteristics, trajectory, origin, or significance.²³

Photo B5 matters because it is a transparency record with unusually limited visual content. It preserves the fact that the FBI forwarded a late-2025 UAP image record to AARO, while also showing why single-frame releases without mission reports or sensor context can document a reporting pathway without proving what was observed.¹²³

The release narrative explicitly cautions that its image description is informational only and should not be treated as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about the event's validity, nature, or significance.²

  Released Photo

FBI Photo B5 remote release asset

  References

  References

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