Dark Triangle with Lights, 2011 — FBI Rendering
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in June or July of 2011. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two former U.S. military service members, as described in FBI-UAP-D028.
Incident Overview
In 2011, in an undisclosed location, FBI preserved a digital rendering 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 image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in June or July of 2011. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two former U.S. military service members, as described in FBI-UAP-D028. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prepared this digital rendering in 2026 as a visual aid in support of the PURSUE initiative.
Related records
This picture is an illustration, not a photograph. The Federal Bureau of Investigation drew it in 2026 as a visual aid, working from the description the witness gave in Dark Triangle with Lights — so it shows what the account describes, and it is evidence of the account rather than of the object. Read against the interview it illustrates, it is useful; read on its own, it will look far more definite than the testimony behind it.
Status of the case
This image is an illustration, and the distinction matters more here than anywhere else in the archive. The Federal Bureau of Investigation drew it in 2026 as a visual aid, working from a witness’s spoken description of something seen years earlier — so it is a picture of an account, not a picture of an object, and it cannot corroborate the account it was drawn from. A rendering also does something testimony alone does not: it resolves every detail the witness left vague. Edges become definite, proportions become fixed, and a half-remembered shape acquires a clean geometry it may never have had. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has made no determination about the underlying report, and no photograph, radar track or instrument record accompanies it. Read the interview it illustrates first, and let the drawing be what it is — an artist’s reading of one person’s memory.
