FBI-UAP-D004, FD-1057-02, Northeastern United States, 2024
This document is an FBI FD-1057, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record investigative activity. This FD-1057 documents the FBI’s contact with a U.S. person in October 2024, during which FBI special agents collected video footage and gathered information regarding the circumstances surrounding its capture. The U.S. person captured the video footage in the same general location as the incidents described in documents. The subject matter described in files FBI-UAP-D004 through FBI-UAP-D008 and depicted in the video footage FBI-UAP-PR001 through FBI-UAP-PR003 corresponds to reports originating from the same general area in the northeastern United States.
The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.
Text of the document
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F D RAL BUREAU OF INVIISTIGATION Approved By: Drafted By: Case ID#: - Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Phenomenon (UAP) Division; Synopsis: • Documenting contact with - - and information provided regardin .Lrepeated observations of UxS or UAP appearing as plasma orbs near - residence. Enclosure(s): Enclosed are 11111the f-ollowing items: • Videos provided by provided multiple video clips showing objects appearing to be unknown UxS or UAP near residence. - had previously been referred to the FBI by a FBI liaison contact
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in August 2024. • - detailed his observations, . attempts to collect data, and - work to de-conflict possible prosaic explanations for - observations . • documented - observations and efforts in which • shared with SSA ■ noted renewed activity on the evening of October 2024 which . captured on video. - provided .FBI with clips of the video which showed the activity. - captured additional activity on video on the evening of October • - had privately documented - observations of anomalous lights appearing to be orbs dating back to llll first observation in the early morning hours of November ■ 2021 . • has observed these objects in the vicinity of and sometimes as close as 200 yards from residence. These objects have been observed hovering in a static position, and moving. They are sometimes observed above the horizon, as well as close to the ground, within the trees, and in or near the water. - - has privately consulted with multiple people regarding - observations, and has set up trail cameras and other sensors to collect data from llllproperty. - reported - - seen spikes in Gamma radiation that correlate with times . has observed the objects, and additional unusual effects on electronics and GPS data from devices. - - stated . was never interested in the UAP topic prior to initial observations in November 2021, and stated • would have described - as a skeptic. Since that time, ■ has made repeated observations behind llllresidence, and would like to understand what ■ is observing. - has lived at - residence since 2006 and had not seen any anomalous lights or activity behind - property prior to - first observation in November 2021. ■ had not made attempts to discuss
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what ■ was seeing with - neighbors due to not wanting to alarm them or give them the wrong impression. However -had one conversation with - neighbor to the south who stated that they had also seen strange lights in the tree line behind their house. - also stated that ■ rarely witnessed any human activity in the nature area, and no activity that would explain what. is seeing. - stated• wants to protect family's privacy, as well as being courteous to .ineighbors, so ■ does not want this information regarding -observations to become public. had personal travel planned to and ■had proposed an in-person meeting in 1kely not occur. This information was relayed to FBI - to establish local contact, and any potential ongoing contact with- in
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of FBI's 104 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the FBI agency block it ranks #89 of 104 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #320 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (320 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
For the broader cluster context, this file is part of FBI Modern UAP Files - the FBI's modern UAP files: the 2022 Colorado Springs interview and the FBI-authenticated northeastern orb videos. The cluster page walks through all 47 member files with regional grouping, sensor breakdown, and standout analysis.
Anomalousness Index: 55/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the FBI, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
The witness here is FBI personnel, entering the report into the federal investigative system through standard channels. That's one of the rubric's higher credibility tiers - trained federal investigative staff, weighted level with a trained aviator and below only an astronaut witness - though the posture is reactive (responding to a report) rather than an active operational context.
On corroboration, this file from the FBI - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file from the FBI is catalogued as unresolved, with no formal review process having concluded - logged into the system, but not yet finalized by any review. The rubric treats that differently from 'open after review,' because the absence of a completed review is itself part of the file's status, not a placeholder for one.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 55/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
Related files in FBI
Other PURSUE files in the same category, ranked by Anomalousness Index.
FBI-UAP-PR001, “Triangle Orbs,” Northeastern United States, 2021
FBI-UAP-PR002, “Red Orb Rotation,” Northeastern United States, 2022
FBI-UAP-PR003, “Orbs Over the Pond,” 2024
FBI-UAP-PR004, “Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025
FBI-UAP-PR005, Digital Recreation, Narrative Statement 3-1, Western United States Event, 2…
FBI-UAP-PR006, Digital Recreation, Narrative Statement 3-2, Western United States Event, 2…
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