Massive low black triangle with three white corner lights, seen from a driveway (June or July 2011)
In April 2025 the FBI interviewed two people about an evening in June or July 2011. The rendering's official description calls them former U.S. military service members. They were leaving a driveway at about 8-9 PM when one saw three lights in the sky. He got out of the car and saw a "massive black isosceles triangle" flying north, low, with a car-sized diffuse white light recessed at each corner. It made a low, pulsing hum and left no contrails. One witness estimated it at about 800 ft up, 200 ft long and 100 ft wide. It crossed the tree line within about 10-15 seconds, before a phone could be got out. The FBI produced a rendering (FBI-UAP-D029). The place is redacted throughout. *Method note: war.gov blocks this server. The FD-302 PDF was read directly from the original via the ufotransparency.com mirror. Names, dates and some locations are redacted in the original. The rendering file was not described beyond its official description.*
Evidence, in date order (1)
- 2011Second witness, former service member (name redacted)witnessseparately estimated the triangle at about 800 ft up and 200 ft long, with a graphite centre FBI-UAP-D028
How plausible · High
Two former service members saw a low black triangle together and each gave the FBI their own estimates; neighbours' statements aren't released.
- ●●Access Seen low, from their driveway.
- ●●No gain sought Told to the FBI.
- ●●Character record Former service members.
- ●●Independent convergence Two witnesses with separate estimates.
- ●●Checkable details check out FD-302 released.
- ●○Restraint Plain description.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- FD-302, interview on "04/[redacted]/2025" of two people (names redacted). (FBI-UAP-D028, pp.1-2)
- "On an evening in June or July 2011, it was dark outside when [redacted] was leaving his driveway located at [redacted] about 8 or 9 PM." A third person was driving and another sat in the front passenger seat. (FBI-UAP-D028, p.1)
- "[He] was looking out window and saw three lights in the sky. [He] got out of the vehicle, and when he looked up, he saw a massive black isosceles triangle shaped object flying North." (FBI-UAP-D028, pp.1-2)A triangle over Afghanistan
- "The object had a car-sized white light in each of its three corners that emitted a diffuse glow and were recessed back a bit from the corners. The object was low to the ground, and creating a low humming noise that made a pulsing sound." (FBI-UAP-D028, p.2)
- Seen for "approximately 10-15 seconds. There were no contrails". (FBI-UAP-D028, p.2)
- The second witness "thought the object may have been 800 feet above the ground ... 200 feet long and 100 feet wide", "moving slowly and steadily", and remembered "something in the middle of the triangle that was grayish or graphite colored." (FBI-UAP-D028, p.2)A triangle over Afghanistan
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Sources
- war.gov UFO/UAP records portal (PURSUE releases; not reachable from this server)
- Mirror file list, war.gov Release 05 (7 August 2026)
- FBI-UAP-D028 (war.gov), mirror page with official description
- FBI-UAP-D028 original file, via mirror
- FBI-UAP-D028 war.gov thumbnail path (as recorded by the mirror)
- FBI-UAP-D029 (war.gov), mirror page with official description