Western US triangular craft, June 2026
June 2026 · Western United States
Summary
An FBI FD-302 records a written statement co-signed by two Special Agents about a sighting in the western United States in 2026. The statement says that at about 1923 hours an agent at an observation post called out a thermally elevated object west of his position at a bearing of 251 degrees. Two agents several miles to the west ran to the western side of their post and saw what they described as a dark black triangular object most resembling a delta wing drone.
The FD-302 gives the object's wingspan as nine to fifteen feet, with a depth of six to nine feet and a thickness of one to two feet. One agent viewed it through a handheld thermal device and noted a consistent thermal signature across the airframe and no visible exhaust gases. The object climbed vertically over a ridge line about 3.2 miles west, then moved horizontally and descended to the southeast. Visual contact was lost at about 1.5 miles, after roughly three seconds. The agents heard no sound. The form states that it contains no conclusions of the FBI.
A Department of War memorandum for record from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) documents a witness debrief of what appears to be the same event. It places the sighting at 2023L and gives a wingspan of thirteen to fifteen feet. It describes a ten-second vertical ascent to 200 to 300 feet above the ridge, a hover of about twenty seconds, and a two-to-three-second banking descent into a canyon drainage. The witnesses compared the speed to a fighter jet, but no instrumented speed measurement was obtained.
The memorandum says a third witness at a secondary post first detected the object with long-range thermal equipment. It gives the range as between 1.4 and 3.2 miles by terrain cross-reference. A ground survey the next morning found no wreckage, scarring or vegetation damage, and no physiological effects or electromagnetic interference were reported. The two primary witnesses said a conventional Group 1 drone or rotary-wing aircraft at 1.4 miles would have been clearly audible. The memorandum states that its characterizations reflect the reporter's interpretation and are not conclusive.
Where the files disagree
Two documents give different accounts of the same detail. Both are quoted as written; we don't say which is right.
Time of the sighting
Duration of the sighting
What the files say
“No instrumented speed measurement was obtained.”
Page 3 →“A ground survey of the canyon drainage conducted the following morning located no wreckage, ground scarring, or vegetation damage.”
Page 3 →“We estimated the object's wingspan at approximately nine to fifteen feet, its depth at six to nine feet, and its thickness at one to two feet.”
Page 1 →“The total duration of the sighting was approximately three seconds.”
Page 2 →
Explanations in the record
What the documents themselves say the event was, as recorded. Not our assessment.
- The FBI statement says the object most resembled a delta wing drone, an unmanned aerial system. — Western US UAP observation FD-302 statement (2026), page 1
- The AARO memorandum records the witnesses' view that a conventional drone or rotary-wing aircraft would have been audible at that range, and gives no confirmed explanation. — Triangular UAP witness debrief memo, western US (2026), page 3
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