Two Dark Objects, Military System, Clock Redacted

Brief

The FBI submitted this single still image to AARO as a UAP report, derived from an unnamed U.S. military imaging system in late 2025 over the Western United States. The original image was redacted before submission and no accompanying mission report was provided. The system clock was misconfigured, rendering the embedded timestamp unreliable. The operator was unable to positively identify the two dark, elongated objects visible near the center of the frame.

Metadata

Agency

FBI

Release

5/8/26

Incident

Late 2025

Location

Western United States

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

1 pages

Tags

elongated objects, dual objects, monochrome imagery, military imaging system, Western United States, 2025, AARO submission, redacted

Key points

• The FBI submitted this image to AARO; it was derived from a U.S. military system and redacted prior to submission.
• No accompanying mission report was provided alongside the imagery.
• The embedded image timestamp is unreliable — the operator noted the system date/time had not been set correctly.
• The operator could not positively identify the UAP.
• The monochrome frame shows two small, dark, elongated objects near the center, in the lower left quadrant, against a grainy background with a simplified central crosshair.
• The incident occurred in the Western United States in late 2025.

Most interesting

• The image timestamp is explicitly flagged as wrong due to a misconfigured system clock — a mundane technical failure that nonetheless undermines the evidentiary chain for the recording time.
• The FBI routed the image through AARO rather than handling it internally, indicating the bureau treated it as falling within AARO's statutory UAP jurisdiction.
• Redactions were applied to the military-sourced image before AARO received it, meaning AARO itself was working from a degraded evidentiary copy.
• The two objects are described as elongated — a shape that does not match common drone or aircraft silhouettes in similar monochrome military imagery.
• The absence of a mission report leaves no context for altitude, speed, sensor mode, or engagement status — making analytical resolution effectively impossible from this record alone.