Declassified FBI FD-302 Documents Close-Range Orb Sighting a

Declassified FBI FD-302 Documents Close-Range Orb Sighting and 1987 Power Station Incident

An FBI FD-302 interview report, marked declassified, documents a witness account of two balls of light—one basketball-sized, one beach-ball-sized—observed at roughly 30 yards and 20-30 feet above the ground, moving laterally before disappearing abruptly, along with a reported 1987 red light that hovered and landed near a power station.

Published

October 5, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

Community PURSUE index

fbideclassified302closerangeorbsighting1987

Declassified FBI FD-302 Preserves Witness Testimony Without Conclusions

The FD-302 Its function is transcription: an agent records what a witness states, after advising the witness of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature of the interview, and the resulting pages stand as the account rather than as an assessment of it. The footer makes that separation explicit. The document states that it contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, and it further identifies the report as the property of the FBI, loaned to a receiving agency, with its contents not to be distributed outside that agency.

Those two lines do different work. The first prevents the interview from being read as an FBI judgment on the events described; the second governs custody and circulation of the paper itself. S.

Department of War's declassification channel and the Community PURSUE index, the practical effect is that the record's value is evidentiary in the narrowest sense. It fixes…

Continue reading with DeclassifyAI Premium. Get unlimited access to declassified document analysis, source-linked investigations, newsletters, and topic alerts for $10/month.

$10/month · Billed every 30 days from your signup date

This analysis is based on officially released government source documents. The original government source link remains available above for transparency. Premium is $10/month. Checkout opens when live billing is enabled.

Source verification

This article is based on an officially released source document linked below.

DeclassifyAI summarizes and analyzes the document — it does not replace the original release.

Review the original government source material directly for full context and verification.

The official source link is provided so you can confirm provenance yourself.

Based on the official release at https://www.war.gov/UFO/

Original government source · Community PURSUE index

FBI-UAP-D010, FD-302-71, “Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2026

Official government source URL

https://www.war.gov/UFO/

Read Full Document Source

Official Source DocumentSource Link Provided

Disclaimer

This article is based on declassified or officially released source material. DeclassifyAI summarizes and analyzes the linked government document. Always review the original official source directly — linked above — before relying on any summary or interpretation. Illustrations shown with articles are not part of the originally released documents; they are added by DeclassifyAI for substance when the source release does not include usable imagery.