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.
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Short overview
An FBI FD-302 interview record from 2026 with a U.S. government special agent about an observation in the western United States at around 9 p.m. local time.
Why this is interesting
The record contains the agent’s own signed statement verbatim, which is why its reasoning survives intact. He observed a thermally elevated object in the same western sector and on a similar heading as the night before, roughly two ridge lines farther west, and says the distance kept him from identifying any physical characteristics. He then did something methodical: he filmed a U.S. Army Black Hawk in the same area as a scale and thermal reference, and estimated the object at about half its size — explicitly as an estimate.
Selected passages
- “I observed a thermally elevated aerial object in the same general western sector”
- “the unidentified aerial object appeared to be approximately half the size of the Black Hawk”
Background
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.