DOW-UAP-D051, Email Correspondence, Pacific Time Zone, March 2023

Department of WarPDFMemoModerate redactionPURSUE Release 1

5/10

solid newsworthy item

UAP Insight significance score

Location: Pacific Time Zone
Incident date: 3/23/26
Duration: approximately 8 minutes
Witnesses: Single witness
Released: May 8, 2026

UAP Characteristics

▲ TriangleHoveringErratic movementLuminous

Evidence Types

Testimony

Official Conclusion

Unresolved; summary approved for use at UNCLASSIFIED level pending further review

Official Description

This document is email correspondence describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification on its content. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.

Key Findings

→A civilian reported observing a large, featureless, blue triangular object emitting 'whitish blue' light from multiple points along its perimeter near a national security facility in March 2023.
→The object was described as hovering stationary for approximately three minutes before moving upward in a jerking or jumping manner inconsistent with conventional jet propulsion.
→The total observation duration was approximately eight minutes at night in the Pacific Time Zone.
→The reporter stated they did not believe the object was a drone and could not identify any means of propulsion or defined front or rear of the object.
→The IIR was originally classified SECRET//NOFORN; an OSI HQ official approved processing it as a derivative classification review, permitting the summary to be used at the UNCLASSIFIED level.

UAP Insight Analysis— AI generated, not official

This document is an email chain between an Information Disclosure Analyst at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and an OSI CI Collections and Operations Program Manager, coordinating a derivative classification review of an Intelligence Information Report (IIR) summarizing a civilian UAP sighting in the Pacific Time Zone in March 2023. The unclassified summary embedded in the correspondence describes a large blue triangular object observed hovering near a national security facility for approximately eight minutes. The original IIR was classified SECRET//NOFORN and the request sought to use the summary at the UNCLASSIFIED level.

Analyst Notes

Single civilian witness with no corroborating sensor data; observation was at night limiting visual acuity; altitude and speed were not reported; the document itself notes all descriptive language reflects the reporter's subjective interpretation and should not be taken as conclusive evidence of object features or performance characteristics; the underlying IIR remains classified and is not included in this release.

Extracted Entities

People

Information Disclosure Analyst (name redacted, b)(6)OSI CI Collections and Operations PM / Intelligence Oversight PM (name redacted, b)(6)

Agencies & Organizations

Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and SecurityAir Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)OSI HQ

Locations

Pacific Time ZoneNational security facility (unspecified, Pacific Time Zone)

Aircraft & Objects

Large blue featureless triangular object emitting whitish-blue light from multiple perimeter points

Dates

March 2023

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