Crosshair-Tracked Object, FBI Submission, Context Withheld
FBI Photo A8
A redacted FBI-submitted still image of a small, dark, irregular object captured by a U.S. government sensor system, forwarded to AARO without mission context, location, or date.
Brief
The FBI submitted a single redacted monochrome still image to AARO depicting an unidentified anomalous phenomenon from late 2025. The image, derived from an unspecified U.S. government system, shows a central crosshair reticle with a small, dark, irregular object positioned just below and to the right of center. No mission report, date, or location accompanied the submission. The operating sensor operator could not positively identify the object.
Metadata
- Agency
- FBI
- Release
- 5/8/26
- Incident
- Late 2025
- Type
- IMAGE • .png
- Programs
- AARO
- Tags
- irregular object, monochrome imagery, crosshair reticle, redacted, FBI submission, AARO, 2025, optical sensor, no location
Key points
- The originating operator explicitly reported an inability to positively identify the UAP — no tentative identification is offered in the record.
- The image was altered with redactions before submission to AARO; the scope and nature of those redactions are undisclosed.
- No accompanying mission report was provided, leaving operational context — altitude, speed, heading, environment — entirely absent.
- Neither the date nor the location of the incident was provided to AARO, making independent corroboration impossible.
- The monochrome image features a central crosshair reticle, consistent with a targeting or surveillance optical system rather than a standard photographic platform.
- The UAP is described as a small, dark, irregular object — a morphology distinct from the orb and disc shapes that dominate the broader AARO case catalog.
Most interesting
- The FBI is a domestic law enforcement agency; its appearance as the submitting party is uncommon in the UAP disclosure record, which skews heavily toward military and intelligence originators.
- The crosshair reticle visible in the image implies the sensor was a targeting, surveillance, or weapons-integrated optical system — not a handheld or commercial camera.
- With no mission report, no date, and no location, the image constitutes the entire evidentiary record for this case — a single frame with no surrounding data.
- The irregular shape of the object separates it from the canonical UAP morphologies, raising the possibility that this is either a genuinely novel observation or debris at close range to the sensor.