FD-1057-04, Northeastern United States, 2024
- Date
- Oct 2024
- Place
- Northeastern United States
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
FD-1057 documenting an October 2024 in-person FBI interview with the same witness as FBI-UAP-D004, now employed at a technical facility, elaborating on the multi-year sighting history. First sighting was in the very early morning: a single light outside a window that split into two or three lights forming a triangular pattern, visible about ten minutes, which vanished the instant a smartphone's flash accidentally fired while filming. The witness described a March 2022 sighting (video previously given to the FBI) at a different location on the property, and said sightings are typically at dusk or night, with lights that morph and move laterally. The witness also recounted, second-hand from a former professional contact reached via LinkedIn, an unrelated 1996 incident in which a vehicle's engine and electronics allegedly shut down under a large light on a drive from Fort Bliss, TX toward Fort Carson, CO. The witness has used ADS-B flight-tracking data to try to rule out aircraft explanations for some sightings.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- Yes: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- Yes: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- Yes: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- Yes: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating Continues to rest on one long-term primary witness's self-collected, self-analyzed observations; the described engine/electronics-shutdown incident is explicitly secondhand, from a different person, decade, and location, and is offered only as background context rather than as evidence for the Northeastern sightings themselves.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Same primary witness as FBI-UAP-D004; unnamed former contact for the secondhand 1996 vehicle-interference account
- Sensors
- Visual, smartphone camera/video, witness's own ADS-B data cross-referencing
- Shape
- Not specified for the light sightings; described only as lights
- Lights and colour
- Single light splitting into two-to-three lights in a triangular pattern; lights described as morphing and moving laterally
- Motion
- Moved laterally; the triangular pattern held for about ten minutes on the first sighting
- Duration
- Approximately ten minutes (first sighting)
- Effects
- 1996 account (secondhand, different incident/location, Fort Bliss-to-Fort Carson drive): vehicle engine and electronics reportedly shut down for about two minutes under a large light, then restarted
Pentagon files
FBI-UAP-D005, FD-1057-04, Northeastern United States, 2024
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What the file claims
- Unverified
A light the witness was filming disappeared immediately after a smartphone's flash accidentally fired.
- Unverified
A former contact told the witness that in 1996 a vehicle's engine and electronics shut down for about two minutes under a large light near the New Mexico/Texas border.
- Unverified
The witness used ADS-B flight-tracking data to try to rule out aircraft as an explanation for some sightings.
On the map
42.50° N, 73.00° W, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record
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