FBI Photo B012

FBI Photo B012 is a single-page PDF released May 8, 2026, under the PURSUE Release 01 program. It contains a still image captured by a U.S. military system in late 2025 over the western United States and submitted by the FBI to AARO. The image is monochrome and shows a grainy frame with a central crosshair reticle and a small, dark, circular object in the upper right quadrant, with an indistinct mountain range in the background. The operating crew reported they could not positively identify the object. No accompanying mission report was provided.

The record has several notable gaps: the original imagery was redacted before AARO submission, no mission context or sensor metadata was included, and the embedded timestamp reads 12/31/99 18:11:12 due to an unconfigured system clock, rendering the date field unreliable. The absence of a mission report and the pre-submission redactions limit what can be determined about the object's characteristics, altitude, or behavior. The document contributes a visual data point to the UAP record but remains largely uncontextualized.