FBI Image Recreates Account of Sighting Near Security Site

An unidentified phenomenon was reported near a sensitive national security site in the western United States over two days in October 2023. A federal agent provided a firsthand description.

In 2026, the FBI created an image based on the agent’s account. It may look like a record of what happened there, but it was made from the agent’s verbal description. In other words, it shows how the account was rendered as an image, not a photograph of the phenomenon itself.

What the Agent Reported

The information released says the agent provided a firsthand description, meaning the agent described an event they had direct knowledge of. That does not mean the image was made at the time of the event, or that it shows exactly what was in front of the agent.

There is a clear gap: an agent’s account and an image based on it, but no detailed description of what was seen. That makes it impossible to compare the image with specifics such as shape or movement. The image illustrates the report, but adds no visual information captured at the scene.

Who Requested the Image

In 2026, the U.S. Department of War asked the FBI to create a digital image based on the agent’s account. The FBI created it. The information released does not explain why the department asked for the image or why it was created then, more than two years after the event.

The words “unidentified phenomenon” do not tell us what the thing was, either. They describe something that was observed but not identified. The image does not solve that mystery: it was created to illustrate an account, not to present new evidence from the scene.

What Remains Unknown

The information released does not specify exactly what the agent saw, what caused the phenomenon, or what the image depicts. It also does not explain why the Department of War requested the image; it only states that the image is based on the agent’s account.

The image is in view. What happened near the site remains out of frame.