An agent described an incident that lasted two days in the western United States. The image was based on the account, but what the agent saw remains unknown.
A federal agent described a two-day incident near a sensitive security site in the western United States. The FBI created an image based on the account, but the released details don’t say what the agent saw.
FBI-UAP-D019 is a digital artistic rendering depicting a reported unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States over a two-day period in October 2023. The image was created by the FBI at the request of the Department of War in 2026, based on a first-hand description provided by a federal law enforcement special agent (recorded in DOW-UAP-D080). It is an interpretive illustration rather than a photograph of the event.
A reported UAP incident observed over a two-day period in October 2023, near a sensitive national security site, witnessed firsthand by a federal law enforcement special agent.
Western United States
This is an interpretive digital rendering, not photographic evidence. Visual content is an artist's reconstruction based on a witness account; do not treat depicted object positions/colors as measured data. OCR text layer is noise (image has no real embedded text).
No. It was created to illustrate an account provided by a federal agent.
The released details do not say what appeared or what caused the incident.
A federal agent described an incident near a sensitive security site in the western United States. It took place in October 2023 and lasted two days.
The FBI later created an image based on the agent’s account, at the request of the U.S. Department of War. But the information released does not say what the agent saw. The image grew out of the incident, but the released details never explain exactly what it depicts.
The details released about the incident are brief: It took place near a sensitive security site in the western United States and lasted two days. That information appears in the FBI’s official description of the image. The description characterizes what was reported as an unidentified anomalous phenomenon: something observed but not identified.
Anyone looking for a description of the moment itself will find no account of shape, color, or movement. The site’s name is also absent from the released details. What remains is a general location, the duration of the incident, and the fact that a federal agent provided a firsthand account.
In 2026, the FBI created a digital image based on the agent’s account. It was made to illustrate a description, not to document what happened. The U.S. Department of War asked the FBI to create it.
The released information does not include the full account on which the image was based. That makes it impossible to compare the agent’s words with what the image shows. Nor does it explain why the image was requested, beyond saying that it was prepared at the Department of War’s request. We know who gave the account, who created the image, and when, but not what it depicts.
It is not known exactly what appeared near the site or what caused the incident. The published description offers no possible conventional explanation and provides no details that would allow the agent’s sighting to be identified.
The image began with one person’s account. What was in front of that person remains outside the frame.