Sitio sensible de seguridad nacional, oeste de EE.UU. (ubicación exacta no revelada).The incident the FBI can only show as a digital recreation

At some point in 2023, a federal law enforcement special agent —the official record does not specify whether they belong to the FBI itself or another agency— reported an incident related to unidentified anomalous phenomena that occurred near a sensitive national security site in the western United States, over a two-day period. The 'sensitive' nature of the site implies, almost certainly, a military, nuclear, or intelligence facility whose exact location the government has not disclosed and will not disclose as part of this release.

Unlike virtually the rest of the corpus —where the visual material is, to a greater or lesser degree, an actual recording from a sensor or a witness— this file has no original footage whatsoever. What the FBI produced and the Department of War published in PURSUE's third drop (June 12, 2026) are two animations or 'digital recreations,' catalogued as FBI-UAP-PR005 and FBI-UAP-PR006, with the internal titles 'Narrative Statement 3-1' and 'Narrative Statement 3-2' — nomenclature suggesting they correspond, respectively, to the first and second day of the two-day incident the agent reported.

Per the official record for both videos, the digital recreation 'is based upon a first-hand description provided by a federal law enforcement special agent,' and was prepared by the FBI 'at the request of the Department of War in 2026' — that is, three years after the reported event, and specifically for this public release, not as part of the original investigative process. There are no coordinates, no site identification, and no detail about what exactly the agent observed, beyond the generic description of 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' that titles the set.

The supporting textual document ('Narrative Statement 3') is not available; it likely exists only on the war.gov portal and not as an independent DVIDS asset accessible from this environment.

This file's value is almost entirely methodological, not evidential. It is the only case in the corpus where the government itself unambiguously acknowledges that what the public can see is not a record of the event but a later reconstruction based on a verbal account — a much larger epistemic-fidelity gap than the one separating, say, unedited sensor footage from footage with cuts or digital enhancements (as in the Afghanistan case, ↗). An animation may accurately represent what the agent described, or it may introduce interpretive details from the animator —proportions, colors, speed of movement— that the original testimony never specified with that precision.

The decision to commission a digital recreation, rather than simply publishing a transcript of the testimony, is itself a datum about the PURSUE program's communication priorities: it suggests the Department of War prioritizes visual impact —something the public can see and share— over primary-source fidelity. It is the opposite tension from the one dominating the rest of the corpus, where the usual problem is excess raw footage with no interpretation (vague titles, no report) rather than excess interpretation with no footage.

The proximity to a 'sensitive national security site' adds an additional layer of possible interpretation that cannot be confirmed with what is available: facilities of that type are natural surveillance targets for adversarial actors (reconnaissance drones, for instance), which would support a reading of unrecognized human technology rather than a genuinely anomalous phenomenon. Without the original testimony, without coordinates, and without the full narrative document, there is no way to weigh that hypothesis against others. This file enters the corpus, above all, as an example of a source type —the official reconstruction of a testimony, rather than the testimony or instrumental record itself— that is worth carefully distinguishing from primary evidence.