FD-302-71, “Northeastern Orb Sighting, 2025 — FBI File
This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records an interview with a U.S. person regarding their first-hand account of an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Incident Overview
In 2025, in the Northeastern United States, FBI preserved a documentary record that was declassified and published on June 12, 2026 as part of the third 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 uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records an interview with a U.S. person regarding their first-hand account of an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena.
The subject matter described in files FBI-UAP-D009 and FBI-UAP-D010 and depicted in the video footage FBI-UAP-PR004 corresponds to reports originating from the same general area in the northeastern United States.
Primary-source excerpt
Drawn directly from the released document: “stated that - h s not h d ~ny health issues or concerns since seeing these objects. [Agent Note; Based on where was standing, the objects were approximately 30 yards away and 20 30 feet above the ground]. ■: Upon seeir g the lights, - came outside to views the objects as well. Both and - observed tte objects move laterally to their left, passing behind a tree approximately 36 yards away, at the same height, continuing behind a neighbor s house and beyond a tree that was approximately 75 away. These whi e orbs were traveling much higher in ~ltit dc than the prior red orbs. It is thc properly ofth.: FBI and 1s looncd 10 your”.
Status of the case
Records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which means the federal government has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Where AARO has offered a likely source for an item — an infrared sensor aboard a military aircraft, a commercial camera, or a known optical effect — that attribution is the agency’s working assessment rather than a final determination. Conventional candidates such as drones, balloons, flares, satellites, parallax and forced-perspective artifacts, and ordinary aircraft remain on the table for any unresolved case absent better data than a single sensor pass or a witness recollection.