FBI-UAP-D024, FD-302, “Airborne Lights and Triangle,” 2002, 2023-2024
An FBI FD-302 records a pilot’s accounts of recurring distant white lights observed on multiple flights in 2023-2024 and a separate large triangular silhouette seen over Bagram in 2002. The interview distinguishes reported observations from the witness’s interpretations and notes that the source footage did not establish the lights’ identity.
- File
- Document · Release 05
- Date
- 2002, 2023-2024
- Location
- Northeastern U.S.; Afghanistan
- Extent
- 3 pages
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Probed Assessment
Key takeaways
- An interviewee told FBI agents that pilots had repeatedly reported unusual lights in the sky beginning in October 2023.
- One account placed lights northeast of an aircraft flying from Boston toward Dublin, in the direction of Gander, Canada.
- The witness reported seeing between one and four lights at a time.
Why it matters
This 3-page official record adds page-located primary-source material to the public history represented in Release 05. Its value lies in what the document records, not in independent confirmation of every reported event or estimate.
Corroboration
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Open questions
- • Which reported observations or technical estimates can be independently corroborated from contemporaneous records?
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Official Description from War.gov
This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a March 2024 interview with a former U.S. military pilot, in which the interviewee describes several incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in 2023 and 2024. The interviewee also recalls a 2002 incident potentially involving UAP, while deployed as a military reservist in Afghanistan. An FBI digital rendering based upon the observer’s description accompanies this document, under the title FBI-UAP-D025.
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File Context
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Tracker findings
An interviewee told FBI agents that pilots had repeatedly reported unusual
The record states: An interviewee told FBI agents that pilots had repeatedly reported unusual lights in the sky beginning in October 2023.
One account placed lights northeast of an aircraft flying from Boston toward
The record states: One account placed lights northeast of an aircraft flying from Boston toward Dublin, in the direction of Gander, Canada.
Witness recalled a very large equilateral triangle overhead
The record states: A separate recollection described a very large equilateral triangular form passing overhead from west to east.
Triangle was described as silent and moving steadily
The record states: That witness described silent, steady movement at a possibly estimated 150 knots, with no visible lights.
Release provenance
- Release
- Release 05
- Official ID
- release-05-file-033-fbi-uap-d024-fd-302-airborne-lights-and-triangle-2002-2023-2024
- Cleared
- Aug 7, 2026
Referenced Timeline
Bagram triangle observation
The witness described a large silent triangular silhouette passing over Bagram before dawn.
Recurring lights first observed
The witness placed the first recurring distant-light observation in October 2023.
FBI interview conducted
The FD-302 records an FBI interview on March 9, 2024.
Source Claims
Claims are attributed to the released source and remain distinct from Probed’s assessment and tracker findings.
An interviewee told FBI agents that pilots had repeatedly reported unusual lights in the sky beginning in October 2023.
of the identity of the interviewing Agents and the nature of the interview, MM provided the following information: MR stated that starting in October 2023, a lot of pilots have been seeing the same event occurring, namely seeing lights in the sky.
One account placed lights northeast of an aircraft flying from Boston toward Dublin, in the direction of Gander, Canada.
Jy was flying from Boston, MA to Dublin, Ireland where he saw the lights in the northeast towards Gander, Canada.
The witness reported seeing between one and four lights at a time.
It ranged between one to four lights at a time in the sky.
The interview records an attempt to capture white lights on a Samsung Galaxy S22 during a February 2024 flight.
During a trip on February | 2024, iy! was able to capture video on his Samsung Galaxy S22 phone an event involving white lights.
A separate recollection described a very large equilateral triangular form passing overhead from west to east.
It appeared as if something huge went overhead, from west to east, and was an equilateral triangle shape.
That witness described silent, steady movement at a possibly estimated 150 knots, with no visible lights.
The object was moving silently, at a consistent speed and altitude, possibly 150 knots, with no lights visible.
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