FBI-UAP-D016 is a Federal Bureau of Investigation digital rendering released in PURSUE Release 03 on June 12, 2026.12 The Department of War lists the originating agency as the FBI, with an incident date of October 2023 and a location of the western United States.
An Artistic Interpretation, Not a Photograph
The release describes this image as an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States, involving unidentified anomalous phenomena over a period of two days in October 2023. The FBI prepared this digital rendering in 2026 at the request of the Department of War. The image is therefore an after-the-fact illustration, not contemporaneous photography or sensor capture.3
Grounded in a First-Hand Statement
According to the release, the rendering is based upon a first-hand description provided by a federal law enforcement special agent, as described in DOW-UAP-D080. No further details about the agent, the nature of the phenomena, or the specific site are provided in the release record.1
What The Record Supports
FBI-UAP-D016 documents how the government chose to visualize a witness account from a sensitive site, not an independent measurement of the phenomenon. The image is a 2026 artist's reconstruction built from a single agent's recollection. It provides no sensor data or technical analysis identifying the object or its origin, and the underlying event remains unidentified and unresolved.1