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.

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