Pantex Plant
Pantex Plant is the U.S. Department of Energy’s final-assembly/disassembly site for nuclear weapons, located near Amarillo, Texas, and operated under the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
UAP Relevance
PURSUE Release 04 (July 10, 2026) surfaced a September 2015 department-of-energy incident report: an unidentified, silent object with no discernible propulsion system intruded on airspace over the plant. Two officers pursued it by vehicle, then observed it on foot with binoculars — unable to identify any propulsion system — before it “continued north offsite.” A separate account of the same incident describes a slow-moving (10-15 mph), four-foot-tall “diamond-shaped object,” rounded at top; witnesses disagreed on its color (black vs. silver/red/blue). DoW analysis characterized the object as non-threatening and not close to sensitive assets.
This adds Pantex to the vault’s recurring nuclear-facility/UAP correlation theme alongside los-alamos and sandia-new-mexico.
avi-loeb’s July 10, 2026 review of the same release (src-loeb-pursue-release-04-2026-07) adds a corroborating detail not in the CBS/Hill coverage: officers tracked the object with a camera for 3-5 minutes at ~100-200 ft altitude, and statements/video/evidence were turned over to the FBI.