FBI Western U.S. Reports (2026) – PURSUE Files

These are among the most recent records in PURSUE. In 2026, U.S. government special agents and members of the public in the western United States described several incidents to the FBI: “slow-moving objects” filmed by an agent with a hand-held thermal imager at about 4 p.m.; a “thermally elevated aerial object” seen by another agent at about 9 p.m.; and two separate accounts of “multiple red lights,” including one person who reported three incidents in five hours.^[1]

The records

FBI-UAP-D032, FD-302, “Slow-moving Objects,” 2026

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This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a 2026 interview with a U.S. Government Special Agent, in which the interviewee describes an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States, at approximately 4:00 PM local time, in 2026. This FD-302 is accompanied by video footage captured during the incident, under the title FBI-UAP-PR007.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-PR007, “Slow-moving Objects,” 2026

FBI-UAP-PR007, “Slow-moving Objects,” 2026 — official upload on DVIDS (public domain).

A U.S. Government Special Agent captured this video footage via hand-held optical thermal imaging device during a 2026 incident in the western United States, as described in FBI-UAP-D032. The footage features two, slow-moving “black-hot” areas of contrast, visible in infrared imaging.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-D033, FD-302, “Thermally Elevated Aerial Object,” 2026

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This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a 2026 interview with a U.S. Government Special Agent, in which the interviewee describes an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States, at approximately 9:00 PM local time, in 2026.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-D037, FD-302, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026

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This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a 2026 interview with a U.S. person, in which the interviewee describes three incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States occurring within a 5-hour period in 2026. A second individual who was present at the time also provided an interview, recorded in this collection as “FBI-UAP-D040.” Two FBI digital renderings based upon the observer’s descriptions accompany this document, under the titles FBI-UAP-D038 and FBI-UAP-D039.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-D038, Digital Rendering 1, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026

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This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two U.S. persons, as described in FBI-UAP-D037. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prepared this digital rendering in 2026 as a visual aid in support of the PURSUE initiative.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-D039, Digital Rendering 2, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026

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Same official description as above.

FBI-UAP-D040, FD-302, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026

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This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a 2026 telephonic interview with a U.S. person, in which the interviewee describes two incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. A second individual who was present during the incidents at the time also provided an interview, recorded in this collection as “FBI-UAP-D037.” Two FBI digital renderings based upon the observers’ descriptions accompany this document, under the titles FBI-UAP-D041 and FBI-UAP-D042.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-D041, Digital Rendering 1, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026

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This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two U.S. persons, as described in FBI-UAP-D040. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) prepared this digital rendering in 2026 as a visual aid in support of the PURSUE initiative.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-D042, Digital Rendering 2, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026

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This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two U.S. persons, as described in FBI-UAP-D040. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prepared this digital rendering in 2026 as a visual aid in support of the PURSUE initiative.

— Official PURSUE description

Analysis

Possible explanations. In a “black-hot” thermal display, warmer objects appear dark; two slow, warm objects in daytime (PR007) could be birds, drones or balloons, and the clip has no range data to tell them apart. Multiple red lights at night are a common description of drones, aircraft anti-collision lights, or a series of flares. Since the 2023 Western U.S. Event and the late-2025 test-installation orbs also involved federal agents in the West, it is possible these reports are part of continuing activity near sensitive sites, but PURSUE does not say so.

New or previously released? New.

Released files

See also

• Western U.S. Event (October 2023)
• Western test installation orbs (late 2025)
• FBI
• PURSUE Release 05 (Aug. 7, 2026) overview
• PURSUE

References

1. ^ U.S. Department of War (2026). PURSUE Release 05 (Aug. 7, 2026): FBI-UAP-D032, FBI-UAP-PR007, FBI-UAP-D033, FBI-UAP-D037, FBI-UAP-D038, FBI-UAP-D039, FBI-UAP-D040, FBI-UAP-D041, FBI-UAP-D042, with official descriptions. war.gov/ufo.