FBI Image Shows a Black Circle at the Center of the Reticle

A black-and-white image provided by the FBI shows a black circle exactly at the center of the reticle. The reticle marks where the system is aimed. Behind it is a rough-textured background that may show terrain.

The image came from a U.S. government system, but its type was not disclosed. Right where the reticle marks the center is a circle the operator could not identify. The image lets us describe the shape and its position, but not determine what it is.

What’s at the Center

The FBI provided the image to a U.S. government body that investigates anomalous phenomena: things that have not been identified or explained. That is all the information provided about the system the image came from. There is no detail on whether it takes photographs, displays images, or measures in some other way.

The official description mentions three things: a textured background, a reticle at the center, and a dark circle sitting exactly where its lines meet. The background may show terrain, but that is uncertain, too. The operator reported being unable to identify what appears in the image.

The Image Arrived Incomplete

Before it was provided, the original image had been altered and parts of it redacted. The mission report that was supposed to accompany it was also not provided. As a result, the record offers no explanation of what happened before the image was taken or what was going on around it.

Those details matter because they leave very little beyond what the image itself shows: a dark circle, the center of the reticle, and a rough-textured background. We can see where the circle is, but the image alone cannot tell us what it is or what was around it.

What We Still Don’t Know

The location and date of the image were not provided, and the circle’s identity and the events surrounding it remain unknown. The material provided offers no conventional explanation, and the incomplete image and missing mission report leave those questions unresolved.

A black circle, right where the system is aimed, still without a name.