PURSUE Release 01: FBI Photo B6

The Department of War's PURSUE Release 01 identifies FBI Photo B6 as an FBI PDF released on May 8, 2026, tied to a late-2025 incident in the Western United States.¹ The record consists of a single redacted monochrome image that the release describes as a still derived from a U.S. military system and submitted by the FBI to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).¹ The release also says no accompanying mission report was provided, the operator could not positively identify the UAP, and the date visible in the image is incorrect because the system date or time had not been set.¹

  Photo B6 Sensor Frame

The PDF shows a grainy sensor frame with a central crosshair and multiple black redaction bars.² One dark, structured shape appears just above the top of the vertical reticle, with a faint appendage or streak extending from its left side.² A smaller dark mark appears below and to the right of the reticle.² The release's narrative description identifies the same visible features but says the description is informational only, not an analytical judgment about the event's validity, nature, or significance.¹

  Limits of the Image

The record supports only a narrow set of facts: the image was released as FBI material in PURSUE Release 01, the source context says it came from a U.S. military system in 2025, the scene was redacted before submission to AARO, and the published image does not include a mission report, sensor metadata, range, altitude, speed, camera mode, platform identity, or reliable timestamp.¹ The visible material therefore cannot establish what the dark shapes are, how far away they were, whether they were separate objects, or whether the smaller mark relates to the larger shape.¹²

  Evidence of FBI Reporting

FBI Photo B6 matters because it is a public example of an FBI-submitted UAP still image whose release context is explicit about its limits.¹ The release preserves an unresolved operator report while also flagging the absence of accompanying mission documentation and the unreliability of the displayed date.¹ That combination makes the record useful evidence of interagency reporting and redaction practice, but weak evidence for any conclusion about the underlying object.¹²

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1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵