One sighting of 2026 as two records of PURSUE Release 07 appear to tell it: DOW-UAP-D176, a three-page AARO memorandum for record of a joint witness debrief, and FBI-UAP-D043, an FBI file holding a two-page FD-302 that reproduces a Special Agent’s co-signed written statement, followed by nine images with no text. The war.gov site pairs them. Neither cites the other, and that they concern one event is an inference from the pairing and the shared details.
The memorandum describes federal law enforcement agents watching, at 2023L in late dusk, a matte black, nonreflective triangular craft of extremely low aspect ratio, with an estimated wingspan of thirteen to fifteen feet, rise over a ridge line for about ten seconds, hover for about twenty, then bank and descend steeply into a canyon in two to three seconds. A third witness first detected it on thermal equipment, the ascent was silent, and a ground survey the next morning found no wreckage, ground scarring or vegetation damage. The statement gives about 1923 hours, a wingspan of nine to fifteen feet, no hover, a total of about three seconds, a reading hotter than ambient through a handheld thermal device, and a last phase that approached the observers and descended to the southeast. The memorandum states no conclusion; the FBI form’s footer says the document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, while the statement says the object most resembled a delta wing drone and later calls it the unmanned aerial system.
Every name is boxed, and so are the day and month of the sighting where the memorandum and the statement date it, the day and month in the FBI form’s date fields, and the form’s file number; no page names the place. No page says who made the nine images, which show one dark object shifting across one outdoor scene. The war.gov site’s descriptions go further than the pages: observations over two days at a site it calls sensitive, a second sighting the next evening, an AARO view that the case merits more inquiry, and the images as forensic sketches the agents confirmed. The memorandum’s bars carry labels beginning 1843, which no page explains; this wiki’s UAP Postponement Code entry lists where Release 07 uses them.
Connections
AARO · FBI · FD-302 · PURSUE · Department of War · UAP Postponement Code