FBI-UAP-D008 FD-1057-07 Northeastern United States 2024

FBI-UAP-D008 is a Federal Bureau of Investigation Electronic Communication recorded on form FD-1057, released by the Department of War in PURSUE Release 03 on June 12, 2026. The originating agency is the FBI, the incident date is December 2024, and the location is the northeastern United States. The document records a ground site survey conducted by three Special Agents at a location where two FBI agents had previously observed unidentified anomalous phenomena in November 2024.¹²

  Provenance and Chain of Custody

FBI-UAP-D008 is designated as an official FBI investigative record and bears the form identifier FD-1057-07, signifying it is the seventh FD-1057 filed in this investigative cluster. The FD-1057 is the Bureau's standard form for documenting investigative activity -- it functions as a contemporaneous log of actions taken, observations made, and evidence collected by agents in the field. The document was classified as an official record at the time of creation, and its release as part of the Department of War's PURSUE Release 03 on June 12, 2026 constitutes its first public disclosure.¹³

The release catalog places this document within a discrete cluster of FBI investigative records addressing UAP activity in the northeastern United States. The Department of War's official blurb notes that the subject matter described across files FBI-UAP-D004 through FBI-UAP-D008, and depicted in video footage FBI-UAP-PR001 through FBI-UAP-PR003, all correspond to reports originating from the same general geographic area. FBI-UAP-D008 is therefore not a standalone document but the concluding written record in a sequence of at least five related FD-1057 filings generated by the same investigation.¹²

  What the Document Contains

The FD-1057 records a systematic site survey carried out in December 2024 by three FBI Special Agents. The survey's stated purpose was to photograph and assess the terrain at a location where UAP activity had been previously observed, to examine the immediate vicinity for physical evidence or unusual features, and to evaluate the feasibility of conventional prosaic explanations for the observed phenomena -- in particular, whether unmanned aerial systems such as drones could account for what had been reported.

The document records that two of the three agents conducting the December survey had personally witnessed UAP activity at this location during a prior visit in November 2024. Their first-hand knowledge of the observation geometry and the exact areas in question informed the December survey's methodology. The earlier November observation is described within the file as providing the basis for the current site inspection; full details of that observation are captured in earlier documents within the FBI-UAP-D004 to FBI-UAP-D008 sequence.¹

The document includes six photographic enclosures, all taken with FBI-issued phones by Special Agents during the site survey. These enclosures document discrete areas around the location and constitute the primary evidentiary output of the inspection.

  Survey Methodology and Timeline

On the date of the survey -- specific date redacted -- three agents began a perimeter walk of the site at approximately 10:30 a.m. They followed a marked trail that formed a two-mile loop around the location, proceeding in a clockwise direction. While the marked trail served as the primary route, agents departed from it at two points -- to the west and to the north -- to conduct more detailed ground examinations in areas specifically relevant to the prior UAP observations.

At approximately 11:00 a.m., on the northwest side of the location, the agents left the marked trail and descended to the water's edge. Facing south from this position, they had full and unobstructed line of sight to the witness's property -- the address of which is redacted -- with no obstruction in the sightline. The agents noted that this northwest vantage point was in the vicinity where they had observed UAP activity during the November 2024 visit. This detail is recorded as significant because it establishes that the agents' prior observation location offered direct visual access to the relevant property.¹³

As the agents continued toward the north side of the location -- also identified as an area where UAP activity had previously been observed -- they again descended to the water's edge where they departed the marked trail. From this northern position, agents maintained line of sight to multiple homes on the opposite shoreline to the east. This observation was documented to record the visibility relationships between the survey site and occupied properties in the area.¹

  Physical Findings at the Site

The ground inspection of the areas where UAP activity had been previously observed produced no substantive physical evidence. In both the northwest and north sectors -- the areas most closely associated with the prior observations -- agents found nothing unusual present either on the ground or at treetop level. Tree cover throughout the site was assessed as moderate.

In one area examined, agents identified a feature that appeared to have once served as a fire pit. On inspection, the fire pit showed no evidence of recent burns. The ground around it was blanketed with leaves, indicating the site had not been recently disturbed or used by anyone. No other physical features of investigative significance were identified during the perimeter walk.¹³

  Drone Feasibility Assessment

A central analytical component of the survey was the agents' evaluation of whether conventional unmanned aerial systems -- drones or other remotely piloted craft -- could plausibly explain the phenomena previously observed at the site. After assessing the terrain, the agents concluded that flying a drone or comparable craft at night through the area would be unrealistic without accepting substantial risk of collision with tree limbs. This assessment was grounded in the agents' direct observation of the moderate tree cover and the density of the woodland environment.¹

This finding does not constitute an affirmative identification of the phenomena. It records a professional on-site judgment that one category of commonly proposed conventional explanation -- nighttime drone operation in the area -- faces a significant practical constraint given the terrain. The assessment eliminates or substantially narrows that hypothesis without explaining what was observed.

  Redactions and Evidentiary Gaps

The document contains extensive redactions. Agent names, supervisory personnel, the specific dates of both the November 2024 observation and the December 2024 survey, exact location names and addresses, and details regarding the witness's property are all withheld. The redactions appear designed to protect operational security, personal privacy, and potentially ongoing investigative activity. Their effect is to prevent full reconstruction of the timeline and precise geography of the events described. The fundamental findings of the survey -- the terrain assessment, the drone feasibility evaluation, and the absence of physical evidence -- are not obscured by the redactions, and the evidentiary structure of the document remains legible.¹³

  Investigative Context

The existence of a formal FBI site survey -- documented on official Bureau forms, conducted by Special Agents using Bureau-issued equipment, and generating six photographic enclosures -- reflects that the phenomena reported in the northeastern United States in November 2024 reached a threshold that warranted formal investigative resources. The FD-1057 is a routine investigative form, but its use here in the context of UAP-related site work represents a notable institutional step: Bureau agents acting as witnesses to UAP and subsequently conducting a documented follow-up field inspection.

The connection to FBI-UAP-PR001 through FBI-UAP-PR003 -- video footage released separately as part of the same PURSUE Release 03 package -- indicates that photographic and video evidence beyond the six FD-1057 enclosures exists within this investigative cluster. The written records from FBI-UAP-D004 onward and the video records together represent a multi-format investigative file on UAP activity in the northeastern United States, of which this document is one component.¹²

  What The Record Supports

FBI-UAP-D008 establishes that the FBI formally investigated a location in the northeastern United States where two of its own Special Agents reported observing UAP in November 2024. The December 2024 site survey, conducted by three agents on official Bureau authority using Bureau-issued equipment, found no physical anomaly or obvious prosaic source at the location. The agents' assessment that nighttime drone operation in the area would carry substantial collision risk is documented as a professional field judgment, not a definitive elimination of drone activity.

The record does not identify or explain the phenomena observed by the agents in November 2024. It does not attribute the observations to any known aerial platform, natural phenomenon, or other identifiable source. The phenomena remain unresolved. The document's value lies in its provenance: it is an official FBI investigative record confirming that Bureau agents were witnesses to UAP activity and that the Bureau conducted a formal follow-up investigation, generating a paper trail now available in the public domain for the first time through PURSUE Release 03.¹²³

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