Dark Triangle with Lights, 2011 — FBI File
This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records an April 2025 interview with two former U.S. military service members, in which the interviewees describe an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous…
Incident Overview
In 2011, in an undisclosed location, FBI preserved a documentary record that was declassified and published on August 7, 2026 as part of the fifth tranche of the Department of War’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
What the government released
This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records an April 2025 interview with two former U.S. military service members, in which the interviewees describe an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in June or July of 2011. An FBI digital rendering based upon the observers’ descriptions accompanies this document, under the title FBI-UAP-D029.
Related records
The Bureau released a digital rendering alongside this interview: Dark Triangle with Lights, drawn in 2026 from the description recorded here. The image is an interpretation of this testimony and not a second, independent source for it — whatever the interview is worth, the drawing is worth the same.
Status of the case
An FD-302 is the form on which the Federal Bureau of Investigation writes down what a witness said, recorded by the agent who conducted the interview. It establishes that the account was given and that the Bureau thought it worth preserving — not that the events happened as remembered. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has made no determination about this report, and the Bureau’s own description of these files calls them documentation of interviews rather than findings. Where a digital rendering accompanies an interview, the image was drawn in 2026 from the witness’s description, which means it reproduces the account rather than independently confirming it; an illustration of testimony carries exactly the weight of the testimony it illustrates and no more. That distinction matters most for night-time lights, where distance, size and speed are the first estimates to fail in the absence of a reference object, and where a compelling drawing can lend a recollection a precision the recollection never had.