A black-and-white image showed a circle beside the targeting reticle. Parts of it were redacted before it was sent for review.
A black-and-white image from a government system shows a dark circle beside the targeting reticle. The operator couldn’t identify it, and parts of the image were redacted.
Monochrome still image released by the FBI as part of a UAP submission to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The frame shows a downward-looking sensor view of terrain with a centered crosshair reticle and a small dark circular object near the center of the frame. Multiple opaque black rectangular redaction bars are overlaid across the upper, middle, and lower portions of the image, masking on-screen telemetry/HUD data. Per the manifest, the original imagery was altered with redactions before submission to AARO, no mission report was provided, and the operator was unable to positively identify the UAP. Date and location of the event were not provided.
Still image derived from a U.S. government system depicting a small dark circular object near a centered crosshair reticle over speckled terrain. The operator could not positively identify the object. Image was redacted prior to submission to AARO.
Large opaque black rectangular bars overlaid across the top edge, mid-left/mid-right (flanking the reticle), and lower portion of the frame, masking HUD/telemetry text and indicators that normally surround a sensor display.
Likely reason: Classification or source-protection redaction applied prior to AARO submission, consistent with manifest note that 'original imagery was altered with redactions before being submitted to AARO.'
Findings are grounded in direct visual inspection of raw/img/110-fbi-photo-a5.png plus the manifest description. Visible in the frame: centered white crosshair reticle with tick marks along a horizontal scale; a numeral '5' visible to the right of the reticle on the horizontal scale; a small dark circular object just below/right of reticle center; dense speckled/grainy terrain-like background; multiple black redaction rectangles. No legible text, callsign, coordinates, date stamp, or sensor identifier survives the redactions. Image is monochrome / grayscale despite color_mode 'rgb' in media metadata.
A black-and-white image with a dotted background, a targeting reticle at the center, and a dark circle below it and slightly to the right.
No. The operator couldn’t identify it, and the material offers no explanation.
A black-and-white image shows a dark circle beside a targeting reticle, which looks like a small cross at the center of the frame. The circle is below it, slightly to the right.
The image was produced by a U.S. government system, but the operator who saw it couldn’t identify the circle. The FBI sent the image for review after parts of it had been redacted. What remains is an image of something visible but unidentified.
Densely packed dots fill the background, with the targeting reticle at the center. A dark circle appears beside it. Those are the details in the image description submitted with the report.
The image is a single still, not a video. It captures one moment, not a sequence of movement. The description offers no further information about what lies outside the frame.
The FBI sent the image as part of a report to a U.S. agency that investigates unidentified phenomena. The operator who saw the object couldn’t identify it with certainty. In other words, the person operating the system did not clearly identify the circle.
Parts of the original image were redacted before it was sent. No mission report was included. Such a document might describe the activity during which the image was captured. The agency that received the report therefore saw the image but not the accompanying document.
The record says the incident took place in late 2025, but gives no exact date or location. Parts of the image were redacted, and the mission report was not provided; the material offers no ordinary explanation for what appears in the image.
The circle remains in the center of the image, beside the targeting reticle. The image shows it, but doesn’t say what it is.