Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
U.S. domestic intelligence and law-enforcement agency under the Department of Justice.
UAP-Adjacent Activity
- April 2026: received Rep. Burlison’s referral on Sullivan’s May 2024 death and is reportedly reviewing multiple cases involving cleared aerospace/defense personnel.
- May 8, 2026: Director kash-patel is co-principal on the pursue inaugural release. The FBI is the document-source for Release 01 page 1 — all 10 PDFs are drawn from fbi-case-file-62-hq-83894 (1947–1968 unidentified-objects/“flying discs” file, 18 sub-documents including Oak Ridge, Tennessee reports). Release 01 also includes a New Year’s Eve 1999 FBI photo set showing alleged UAPs alongside U.S. aircraft, plus an FBI eyewitness-sketch composite of an “ellipsoid bronze metallic object” estimated at 130–195 feet. Patel: “first time in history” the public has “unfettered access to declassified government files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon”; per CBS, separately said he has no information that the U.S. ever recovered alien bodies.
Sources
- src-sullivan-whistleblower-death-2026-04
- src-dow-uap-files-release-2026-05
- src-pursue-portal-launch-2026-05
- src-uap-files-rollout-interagency-2026-05
- src-trump-uap-apollo-photos-2026-05
- src-uap-files-public-conclusions-2026-05
- src-war-department-uap-declassification-2026-05
- src-euronews-trump-162-ufo-files-2026-05 — Euronews surfaces paul-peyerl’s 1944 Black Forest Nazi disc-aircraft FBI document; explicit “neither recommendations nor conclusions” disclaimer cited as the caveat-of-record for FBI UAP files in PURSUE Release 01.
- src-al-jazeera-pursue-uap-files-2026-05 — Al Jazeera surfaces a September 2023 FBI drone-pilot interview describing a “linear object” with light bright enough to “see bands within the light,” visible 5–10 seconds before vanishing — a previously unhighlighted FBI eyewitness record from Release 01.