DISCLOSURE / FILE
FBI submission to AARO of a single redacted monochrome still image from a 2025 U.S. military system showing a small dark circular object near a crosshair reticle over indistinct terrain.
FBI Photo B12
FBI submission to AARO of a single redacted monochrome still image from a 2025 U.S. military system showing a small dark circular object near a crosshair reticle over indistinct terrain.
The FBI forwarded an unidentified anomalous phenomenon report to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of one still image derived from a U.S. military system in 2025, taken somewhere in the western United States in late 2025. The original imagery was altered with redactions before submission, and no mission report accompanied it. The operator could not positively identify the object, and the timestamp burned into the frame (12/31/99 18:11:12) is incorrect because the system date and time were not set. The frame shows a central crosshair reticle, a small dark circular object in the upper right quadrant, and an indistinct mountain range in the background.
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[REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 15 10 5 + 5 10 15 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 12/31/99 18:11:12
Concatenated page-by-page transcript. Born-digital pages came through pdf.js; scanned pages were transcribed by Claude vision OCR. Pages marked unreadable failed multiple OCR retries (heavy redaction, microfilm artifacts, or blank separators) and are kept in place for audit.
[REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 15 10 5 + 5 10 15 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 12/31/99 18:11:12