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This Consolidated Nuclear Security incident report, sent to the NNSA Production Office with a cover letter dated September 2015, covers an unidentified object at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, on September 1, 2015. Ground Surveillance Radar tracked the object moving north at 10 to 15 mph. Protective Force officers followed it off site and described a silent, diamond-shaped object about 4 feet tall with no visible propulsion. The report says the object never appeared threatening, and its video went to Sandia National Labs and the evidence to the FBI.
From the source: Release of 2026-07-10 Incident: 9/1/15, Texas. Released with redactions. This file contains imagery and a report documenting the circumstances surrounding a September 1, 2015, incident involving an unidentified object intruding the airspace above the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. The Pantex Plant is a sensitive national security site that contains the primary facility for the assembly, disassembly, maintenance, and life-extension of nuclear weapons. Pages 5 and 6 of this report were originally released under the PURSUE initiative in a more redacted form on May 22, 2026. (See: DOE-UAP-D001, Enhanced Pantex Imagery)
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plant. Their perspective of the object was that it was a "diamond" type shape with it being
more round at the top.
Security Police Officers in a Bearcat with a Common Remotely Operated Weapon System
(CROWS) unit were also able to locate and track the object via CROWS camera as it traversed
the plant. The SPOs stated that it was 100-200 ft. above the ground and they were able to track
the object for 3-5 minutes. The SPOs location was approximately 75-100 meters from the
object.
Other PF personnel that observed the object, including a SPO that was viewing the object
through binoculars described it as being approximately 4 ft. tall and 2 ft. wide at the bottom.
The object was also described as being thinner at the top. However, there were some
discrepancies in the color of the object. Some personnel stated that it was black in color while
others noted that it appeared to be silver, red and blue.
Video was obtained from the GSR tower that was closest to the object and subsequently sent to
Sandia National labs for further study (see image below titled, Image from Ground Surveillance
Radar Tower). The video does not provide much detail of the object due to the distance of the
object to the GSR tower. It should be noted that at no time did the object appear to be
threatening in nature nor did it come to close proximity to any sensitive assets. The object
remained over open unpopulated areas ofthe plant prior to it proceeding offsite. All evidence
of the incident {i.e. statements, video, etc.) were turned over to FBI agent
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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.