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This Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 interview report from 2026 records a witness account, with names and locations redacted, of multiple unidentified dull red lights seen at night in 2026. The witness watched them through night optical devices as they moved along a mountain ridgeline, hovered overhead and came as low as about 6 feet off the ground. The witness also said his analog watch ran 25 minutes fast afterward. The form states that it contains no FBI recommendations or conclusions.
From the source: Release of 2026-08-07 Incident: 2026, Western United States. 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 2026 interview with a U.S. person, in which the interviewee describes three incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the western United States occurring within a 5-hour period in 2026. A second individual who was present at the time also provided an interview, recorded in this collection as “FBI-UAP-D040.” Two FBI digital renderings based upon the observer’s descriptions accompany this document, under the titles FBI-UAP-D038 and FBI-UAP-D039.
FD-302a (Rev. 5-8-10) - t old agents t hat he had spent a c onsiderabl e amount o f time at a - facility looking up at t h e night sky, and was fami l iar with how stars / satellites / mete o rs l ook t o bo th t h e naked eye and with NODs stated that the lig hts he observed and described were u nlike anything h e had seen before . - stated that the l ights he observed o n - did not behave like satellites, as satellites track linea r across the sky, whereas these did no t . - stated t he unidentified l ights moved a round and changed direction , and a l s o appeared to be as low as 6 feet off the g r ound . The low- e l evation lig hts described would have been backdropped by the mountains and be low the r e l ative hori z o n l ine I h e observed was no t a UAS that he familiar with . - noted no exhaust o r tail when these ob j ects moved , and they exhibited no a udibl e sound signature . - attempted to observed t h e objects through t h ermal optics, but was unsuccessful . noted no phys i ologica l effects from the events . - stated that the observations did not induce a fear or agitati o n response - j us t c u r iosity . conversed about thi s afterward, and g iven their backgrounds , f ound it strange that they di d not fee l fear or threatened during their observation s . - provided his contact in f o rmati on and was open t o furt her contact from agents .
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