Are the NRC nuclear-site drone reports UAP?

The file checked for this brief is an image PDF posted by Liberation Times under the name FOIA-2026-000270-Responsive-Records.pdf. It is 17 page images. It has no text layer. This brief reads those images. It is not a typed NRC transmittal.

The opened images do not show an NRC letterhead, a cover letter, or the phrase Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The filename is the case ID. Do not invent a transmittal quote.

The NRC 2026 news-release index, opened for this brief, lists releases through August 13, 2026. No October 2026 drone-records release appears in that list. This PDF is not that index.

This image read found 67 distinct identifiers of the form SID- plus five digits. The lowest is SID-03234. The highest is SID-03362. The numbers between them are not all present. Do not turn that span into a continuous set of reports, and do not treat 67 as an NRC press total.

The earliest row in this read is SID-03234, Quad Cities. The narrative date is February 1, 2024. The latest is SID-03362, Byron. The narrative date is March 24, 2026. The identifier line date is 3/25/26. Quote both dates for that row. Do not pick one.

A text read of the opened images found no use of UAP, alien, or extraterrestrial. Do not add those words.

Each record in this file is a security log, not a kinematics study. The narrative sits beside a metadata line. The metadata line carries the SID identifier, a date, a region number, a site, a state, a word such as Operating, the word Drone, and a short label such as Drone or Drone Flyover.

Two more words sit on the same record. Closed appears with a facility-type line such as Power Reactor Released. Unresolved appears on the identifier line. This image read did not find the single string Closed Unresolved. A news recap uses that combined label. The row, as read, keeps the two words separate.

The same record also carries this sentence: This report is open pending ILTAB/ILTAT review. ILTAB/ILTAT will update or close this report when appropriate. The pending sentence can sit on a row that already shows Closed and Unresolved. Quote the words and the sentence. Do not drop the sentence because a headline already picked a status.

That pairing is a security-log status. It is not an AARO unresolved case card. AARO unresolved means an official imagery or case product that AARO has not resolved. These rows are not that product.

Read one SID row in this order. If a field is missing, stop. Do not fill it from a news recap.

1. Identifier. Copy the SID number from the row. A missing number between the lowest and highest identifier is not a missing page.

2. Dates. Read the narrative date and the date on the identifier line. If they differ, quote both.

3. Site and state. A Virginia plant row is not a Langley Air Force Base case. The opened images do not use the word Langley.

4. Category. These rows use the word Drone. Do not retitle the row as UAP because a later UAP report also discussed drones near nuclear sites.

5. Status words. Read every status word on the row. Closed and Unresolved both appear. The pending-review sentence also appears. Quote all three.

6. Who was notified. A call to a radar facility is not a radar track unless that row says the object appeared on radar.

7. Narrative. Treat it as a security log. It is not a speed study, not an altitude solution, and not an AARO case card.

Worked example, SID-03281. The identifier line date is 12/13/24. The site is Surry, Virginia. The category word is Drone. The row carries Closed, Unresolved, and the pending-review sentence. The narrative says security notified the Norfolk Radar Approach Control Center that the drone had an unknown size and an altitude in excess of 100 feet, and that the air traffic controller had no information to report. That is a notification. It is not a radar confirmation.

A different Surry row is not the same sentence. SID-03278, identifier line date 12/12/24, says Fort Eustis control tower confirmed that the drone appeared on radar at approximately 300 feet, and that Norfolk Radar Approach control center had no additional information. That is the site's log of what the tower said. It is not an AARO radar product. It does not apply to SID-03281.

SID-03280, Hope Creek, identifier line date 12/13/24, says the drones were approximately the size of a small motor vehicle. Do not replace that phrase with a different vehicle comparison from a news recap. A size estimate in a security log is not a measured wingspan.

December 2024 Surry rows are not the 2023 Langley Air Force Base drone incursion record. Fort Eustis appears in some Surry narratives as a control tower the site called. That is not a reason to retitle this file as the Langley case.

This file is also not AARO's FY2025 count of 50. That report logged 50 unmanned aerial system incidents near U.S. nuclear infrastructure and said none of them were reported as UAP. It did not publish this SID table. Do not add 67 and 50. Do not subtract them. They are different products.

Unknown operator is an attribution gap. It is not unexplained flight performance, and it is not extraterrestrial identification. The opened file does not make that identification.