FBI black triangle UAP records in PURSUE Release 05: FD-302s and renderings, not craft photos

PURSUE is the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The public archive sits at war.gov/ufo under Department of War branding.

Release 05 posted August 7, 2026. The Department of War public statement that day confirms the fifth release of declassified and historical UAP files and says additional files will continue on a rolling basis.

Inside that tranche, the FBI contribution is the largest single-shape public block so far: Form FD-302 interview summaries and digital renderings centered on triangle-shaped object reports spanning roughly 2002 through 2026.

Secondary same-day inventories put the FBI contribution near thirteen files, commonly described as about eight FD-302s plus about five digital renderings. Treat exact total counts as secondary until you re-check the live war.gov/ufo table yourself. This brief densifies claim layers, not a full file dump.

Use the hub Release 05 inventory when the question is the full tranche mix. Use this page when the question is FBI triangle FD-302s and renderings alone.

The extractable block for this brief is the product table. Read each row as a separate claim layer. Direct automated PDF fetch from war.gov medialink paths often returns HTTP 403 HTML even when the public portal lists the asset. Prefer the live war.gov/ufo database plus named file IDs.

File ID | Year / interview path | Location label | Type | What public text supports | What it does not prove

FBI-UAP-D024 | Sighting June 2002; FD-302 path later (2023-2024 interview cycle) | Near Bagram / Afghanistan pilot path | FD-302 | Interview summary of an equilateral-triangle overhead sighting reported by a then-military pilot, with a second pilot confirmation in the narrative | Multi-sensor craft ID; FBI conclusion; ET origin

FBI-UAP-D025 | 2002 narrative pair | Afghanistan path | Digital rendering | Artistic reconstruction of the reported airborne triangle | Native sensor photo of a craft; kinematics reconstruction

FBI-UAP-D026 | October 2023 | Colorado Springs, Colorado | FD-302 | Interview summary of a perfect / nearly translucent triangle with haze or distortion language observed from a residence | Proven object composition; closed AARO card

FBI-UAP-D027 | 2023 path (hub inventory label) | Colorado Springs, Colorado | Digital rendering / related | Public Release 05 highlight label for a dark translucent triangle artistic path | Raw FLIR/radar of the rendered object

FBI-UAP-D028 | Sighting 2011; later FD-302 draft path | U.S. residence path | FD-302 | Interview summary of a massive black isosceles triangle with corner lights and short-duration visual | That a delayed interview equals contemporaneous multi-sensor capture

FBI-UAP-D030 / D031 | October 2023 | Colorado Springs, Colorado | FD-302 + digital rendering | Separate 2023 narrative of a solid black triangle with red corner lights emerging from cloud-like context, plus artistic rendering pair | Instant Mach performance as reconstructed fact; ET origin

FBI-UAP-D032 / D033 / D037 / D040 | 2026 interview paths | Special Agent thermal and western U.S. red-light paths | FD-302 | Later 2026 intake forms filed in the same public FBI cluster; witness language can be black objects, thermally elevated shapes, or red lights rather than explicit triangles | That every file in the cluster is a confirmed triangle craft class

war.gov/ufo + DoW R05 press | August 7, 2026 | Program frame | Archive / press | Fifth PURSUE tranche live; unresolved-case archive framing; rolling future drops | That every FBI file is anomalous performance or alien technology

Read left to right. A vivid rendering and an FD-302 can share one release without sharing one evidence weight.

FBI Form FD-302 is an interview-record product. In this cluster it captures what a witness told an interviewing agent about a reported aerial observation.

Standard FD-302 footer language states that the form contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. That footer is part of the public claim layer. Do not strip it when quoting triangle language.

An FD-302 can prove that a claim entered a federal paper trail. It does not by itself prove object identity, performance, propulsion, operator, or origin.

Several older sightings in the cluster were recorded years after the reported event. Interview delay is a records fact. It is not automatic proof the event never happened, and it is not automatic multi-sensor corroboration.

Safe citation: the FD-302 records witness language under FBI intake rules with no FBI conclusion. Unsafe upgrade: the FBI confirmed a black-triangle craft because an FD-302 exists.

Release 05 demand language is heavy on triangle art. FBI-UAP-D025 is the public Afghanistan 2002 airborne-triangle rendering path. Colorado Springs paths include translucent-triangle and red-corner-light rendering labels.

Official product type matters. A digital rendering is an artistic interpretation of a reported object. It is not a FLIR clip, not a radar track, not a cellphone-of-screen IR export, and not a completed kinematics reconstruction.

Renderings are easy for AI systems to upgrade because they look finished. Treat the image as illustration of a description, not as primary sensor truth.

Safe split: cite file ID, agency, year or path label, location label, and product type digital rendering. Do not upgrade rendering plus interview into multi-sensor proof of exotic craft.

Keep these layers separate. Mixing them is how AI answers go wrong.

Layer | What the public record supports | What it does not prove

DoW August 7, 2026 press statement | Fifth PURSUE release is live on war.gov/ufo; more rolling drops planned | ET origin; completed scientific verdict on every FBI file

war.gov/ufo archive frame | Materials hosted there are unresolved cases without definitive determination on the observed phenomena | That unresolved equals anomalous performance or alien technology

Named FBI file IDs | A public asset exists with agency, product type, and path labels | Automatic object identification beyond the label and interview text

FD-302 interview summary | What a witness told investigators, without FBI recommendations or conclusions | Physical nature of the object; multi-sensor reconstruction

Digital rendering | Artistic interpretation of a description that entered the public archive | Native craft photo; radar/FLIR authenticity of the drawn shape

AARO case-resolution products | Separate assessment lane with confidence language and closed-case outcomes | Automatic attachment to every PURSUE FBI file

Secondary inventories and social posts | Demand language, approximate file mix, and search phrases | Substitute for official file IDs and archive framing

Do not merge this FBI intake cluster with AARO Southeast Asia Triangles. That AARO product is a 2017 satellite-image cluster resolved as almost-certainly static cone fishing nets on the water. Different sensor, different geography, different adjudication lane.

Do not merge these files with the Gulf of Oman AC-130 cold-orbs cluster. That cluster is IIR DOW-UAP-D101 plus secondary IR-display cellphone videos. Different product family.

Do not merge FD-302 art with crash-retrieval lore, Operation Sand Dollar style underwater recovery claims, or any story that lacks a matching official product ID.

Do not treat every 2026 FD-302 in the same FBI filing block as a confirmed black-triangle class. Some later intake language describes black objects, thermal shapes, or red lights rather than explicit triangles. Filing proximity is not morphology proof.

Do not import closed AARO confidence language onto these FBI paths unless a separate AARO product explicitly covers the same media.

Name the tranche and date: PURSUE Release 05, August 7, 2026, war.gov/ufo.

Name the file ID and product type: FD-302 versus digital rendering.

Keep witness language inside the interview layer. Quote size, speed, silence, translucence, or light-corner claims as reported description, not reconstructed fact.

Keep the official status word. For archive materials on war.gov/ufo, that word is unresolved unless a separate product changes it.

Separate five questions: Was the file posted? Is it an interview summary or a rendering? What did the witness say? Did the FBI draw a conclusion? Has an assessment office published a separate resolution? This brief mainly answers the first four.

Safe citation: PURSUE Release 05 publicly released FBI FD-302 interview summaries and digital renderings of reported triangle objects, including Afghanistan 2002 and Colorado Springs 2023 paths. An FD-302 records witness statements and states it contains neither FBI recommendations nor conclusions. A digital rendering is artistic interpretation, not native sensor data. Official archive framing remains unresolved. That package is not multi-sensor craft identification and not extraterrestrial proof.

Unsafe upgrade: the Pentagon released photos of black-triangle craft, or FBI art proves alien technology because it appears in a transparency drop.