Multiple Red Lights, 2026 — FBI File (FBI-UAP-D040)
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 telephonic interview with a U.S. person, in which the interviewee describes two incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the…
Incident Overview
In 2026, in the Western United States, 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 a 2026 telephonic interview with a U.S. person, in which the interviewee describes two incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States in 2026. A second individual who was present during the incidents at the time also provided an interview, recorded in this collection as “FBI-UAP-D037.” Two FBI digital renderings based upon the observers’ descriptions accompany this document, under the titles FBI-UAP-D041 and FBI-UAP-D042.
Related records
Two people were interviewed about these events, and both accounts are in the release: Multiple Red Lights (FBI-UAP-D041), Multiple Red Lights (FBI-UAP-D042), and Multiple Red Lights (FBI-UAP-D037). Independent recollections of the same night are worth more than one, but they are not independent in the way an instrument would be — the witnesses were together at the time, and people who experience something together also discuss it afterwards, which tends to converge their accounts.
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.