The visual record behind the investigation: declassified military sensor stills, FBI file imagery, and NASA Apollo photographs. Click any image to enlarge it.
A note on what these images are. Most are infrared sensor stills, single frames pulled from military targeting cameras, rather than crisp photographs of craft. The grey fields are sky and terrain seen through a thermal sensor, the crosshairs are tracking reticles, and the black rectangles are redactions applied before release. They are shown here exactly as the agencies released them. One image, clearly labelled, is an illustrative rendering rather than a photograph.
Modern military sensor imagery
Declassified stills released with Department of Defense UAP reports between 2013 and 2026. Each is an infrared targeting-camera frame, and the black rectangles are redactions applied before release.
UAP Report: Middle East, May 2022A declassified US military sensor still released with a Department of Defense UAP report. The crosshair is the sensor’s tracking reticle. The black rectangles are redactions covering targeting and location data.UAP Report: Middle East, 2020A declassified UAP report sensor still. The grey field is terrain or sky seen through an infrared targeting camera, and the redaction blocks hide the surrounding metadata.UAP Report: Middle East, 2013One of the older sensor stills in the collection. Reports logged years before the recent wave of attention were declassified alongside the newer ones.UAP Report: United Arab Emirates, October 2023A sensor still from the UAE operating area. The UAE and Greece were two of the densest single-region clusters in the modern record.UAP Report: Greece, October 2023A Greek-operating-area sensor still. A faint dark form sits near the centre crosshair, the kind of low-detail contact these reports typically log.UAP Report: Greece, October 2023A second Greek-area report from the same month. Several Greek incidents were recorded only weeks apart.UAP Report: Indo-Pacific, 2024A sensor still from the Indo-Pacific theatre. It is one of the few major incidents in the modern collection outside US Central Command’s Middle East area.UAP Report: Africa, 2025A recent sensor still from the Africa theatre, declassified within a year of the encounter.UAP Report: Department of the Army, 2026The most recent image in the collection. In this near-dark night frame a tracked object sits in the centre brackets, with a second bright form above it.
FBI file imagery
Imagery released through FBI UAP file requests. Most are targeting-camera stills, with one illustrative rendering. Several carry timestamps from 1999.
FBI File Imagery: sensor stillImagery released through FBI UAP file requests. Like the military reports, it is a targeting-camera frame, and like them the metadata is hidden behind redaction blocks.FBI File Imagery: tracked contactA sensor still with a dark contact just left of the tracking crosshair. The eight surrounding black rectangles each cover a removed data field.FBI File Imagery: over terrainA sensor still showing ridgelines along the lower frame, a measurement scale across the centre, and redaction blocks at every metadata position.FBI File Imagery: sensor stillOne of the FBI-released targeting-camera frames. The collection holds a series of these, consecutively numbered.FBI File Imagery: sensor stillA redacted sensor still from the FBI file series.FBI File Imagery: sensor stillA redacted sensor still from the FBI file series.FBI File Imagery: dated 31 Dec 1999A sensor still carrying a visible timestamp of 31 December 1999, 18:20:22. Two small dark contacts sit just above the tracking line.FBI File Imagery: dated 31 Dec 1999From the same 1999 sequence, timestamped one minute earlier. A single small contact hovers near the crosshair.FBI File Imagery: sensor stillA targeting-camera frame from the FBI file series, with the standard pattern of metadata redaction.FBI File Imagery: sensor stillA targeting-camera frame from the FBI file series.FBI File Imagery: sensor stillA targeting-camera frame from the FBI file series.FBI File Imagery: sensor stillA targeting-camera frame from the FBI file series.FBI File Imagery: cropped frameA smaller cropped sensor frame from the FBI release, the same imagery presented at lower resolution.FBI File Imagery: cropped frameA cropped sensor frame from the FBI release.FBI File Imagery: cropped frameA cropped sensor frame from the FBI release.FBI File Imagery: cropped frameA cropped sensor frame from the FBI release.FBI File Imagery: cropped frameA cropped sensor frame from the FBI release.FBI File Imagery: cropped frameA cropped sensor frame from the FBI release.FBI File Imagery: cropped frameA cropped sensor frame from the FBI release.Illustrative rendering (not a photograph)An illustrative rendering held in the FBI files: a stylised depiction of a disc-shaped craft over open ground. It is an artist’s composite rather than photographic evidence, and is included here for completeness.
NASA Apollo lunar photography
Surface photographs from the Apollo 12 (1969) and Apollo 17 (1972) missions, with anomalous objects highlighted by later analysts.
Apollo 12: lunar surface, 1969An Apollo 12 surface photograph. Later analysts added the yellow callout box, magnifying a faint blue form in the lunar sky above the horizon.Apollo 12: lunar surface, 1969An Apollo 12 surface frame from the same 1969 sequence.Apollo 12: lunar surface, 1969An Apollo 12 surface frame from the same 1969 sequence.Apollo 12: lunar surface, 1969An Apollo 12 surface frame from the same 1969 sequence.Apollo 12: lunar surface, 1969An Apollo 12 surface frame from the same 1969 sequence.Apollo 17: lunar surface, 1972An Apollo 17 surface photograph from the final crewed Moon landing, the latest of the NASA frames in the collection.
