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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.
  • June 12, 2026 (PURSUE Release 03): contributed eyewitness orb videos, FBI digital renderings, the 2022 Colorado Springs forensic-sketch case, and 1949 J. Edgar Hoover/Barnes correspondence (src-newsweek-pursue-release-03-2026-06).
  • 1947 — West Rindge, NH case: the Boston Field Office investigated a July 7, 1947 metallic-fragment/grass-fire incident at west-rindge-new-hampshire, commissioning MIT spectrograph analysis; a final memo ordered specimen destruction absent countermanding instructions by August 15, 1947. Declassified and reported by NHPR in June 2026; the Bureau told NHPR in 2026 it could not locate records confirming the specimens’ fate (src-west-rindge-1947-pentagon-files-2026-06).

World UFO Day note (July 2, 2026)

As of a July 2, 2026 LAmag piece (src-world-ufo-day-pursue-stall-2026-07), the administration’s April 2026 pledge to work with the FBI on “missing scientists” cases (see uap-personnel-deaths-pattern) had received no public update.

July 8, 2026 — Varginha records request

Director kash-patel received a letter from Rep. eric-burlison asking the FBI to determine investigative equities, legal attaché reporting, and any records involving U.S. personnel, contractors, or U.S.-registered aircraft connected to the 1996 varginha-incident, and to preserve records and brief Congress — a companion to the same-day CIA letter. (src-burlison-varginha-cia-fbi-records-2026-07)

Counter-UAS Regulatory Role (July 2026)

The FBI’s National Counter-UAS Training Center (NCUTC) is designated the sole certifying “national schoolhouse” for SLTT (state/local/Tribal/territorial) C-UAS mitigation training under the safer-skies-act interim final rule (6 CFR/28 CFR Part 124, effective July 1, 2026). The FBI also operates the single federal C-UAS coordination portal. See src-safer-skies-act-counter-uas-rule-2026-07.

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