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FD-302, “Airborne Lights and Triangle,” 2002, 2023-2024
This Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 records an interview with a commercial airline pilot conducted in early 2024. The pilot said that since October 2023 they and other pilots had seen white lights at high altitude, usually between midnight and 3 AM, including on a Boston to Dublin flight and near North Dakota, where they filmed the lights in February 2024. The pilot also described a silent, unlit triangular object about 500 feet across passing over Bagram, Afghanistan, in June 2002.
From the source: Release of 2026-08-07 Incident: 2002, 2023-2024, Northeastern U.S.; Afghanistan. Released with redactions. This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a March 2024 interview with a former U.S. military pilot, in which the interviewee describes several incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in 2023 and 2024. The interviewee also recalls a 2002 incident potentially involving UAP, while deployed as a military reservist in Afghanistan. An FBI digital rendering based upon the observer’s description accompanies this document, under the title FBI-UAP-D025.
- 1 of 3 - FD-302 (Rev. 5-8-10) -FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date ofentry 04 . /2024 in - . , was intervi ewe Agent , s -- - · - was referred to the FBI by ~ After being advised of the identity of the interviewing Agents and the nature of the interview, - provided the following information : - stated that starting in October 2023, a l ot of pilots have been seeing the same event occurring, namely seeing lights in the sky. Pilots have been discussing the events over Pi l ots typical l y saw them between midnight and 3 AM. - did not know if the events occurred at that time because that was when it was dark enough or if it was because that was when the l i ghts were present. - first observation of the lights occurred in October 2023. - was flying from Boston, MA to Dublin, Ireland where he saw the l ights in the northeast towards Gander, Canada. - was at an elevation of 37,000 feet and believed the lights were h i gher than him, probably at 50,000 feet or higher . The lights were white in color, would start out as dim, and get br i ghter before they eventua l ly faded out . The fu l l cycle of the lights would range from 10 seconds to one minute. The l ights looked like airp l ane landing lights, but - knew that it was not them, nor did he think it was -Investigation on by This document contains neither recommendatiollll nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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