Enhanced PANTEX Imagery — Department of Energy File
A Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report that includes an enhanced image from ground surveillance radar tower.
Incident Overview
The Department of Energy preserved a documentary record from Pantex Plant, Texas — its underlying incident date redacted in the released file — that was declassified and published on May 22, 2026 as part of the second tranche of the Department of War’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
What the government released
A Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report that includes an enhanced image from ground surveillance radar tower.
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.