UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RELEASERELEASE 03 · JUNE 12, 2026
PENTAGON UFO FILE · VIDEO · FBI-UAP-PR004“Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025
This 49-second video is the latest-dated of the FBI’s four northeastern United States clips, recorded in July 2025 by a homeowner who came back from work to find a bright light hovering in the backyard. Unlike the other clips from the area, two people saw this event, and the FBI says it found both credible.
What the couple described
The first witness noticed the light while parking at about 9 p.m.: an estimated 90 feet away and roughly 25 feet up, beneath a tree line. The spouse came out and described a “brilliant red sphere” about a meter wide with a white center the size of a basketball. As it rose and moved left, both saw a second, identical orb above it. Only then did recording start, on an iPhone 14 Pro Max, so the video shows the later stage: the two orbs moving west together over the trees, smoothly and silently, as if in formation or tied together, before seeming to merge as they passed out of view at an estimated 75 yards.
Part of a local cluster
The FBI notes the sighting took place within 25 miles of the earlier ones in its “Triangle Orbs,” “Red Orb Rotation” and “Orbs Over the Pond” videos, in a sparsely populated area the witnesses knew well. The witness interviews are FBI-UAP-D009 and D010. The bureau gives no explanation and the size and distance figures are the witnesses’ estimates; publication does not mean the FBI judged the lights anomalous.
The official description
From war.gov/UFO, released June 12, 2026, quoted in full
In July 2025, at approximately 2100 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed an intense bright light in their backyard as they parked their car upon returning home from work. The light was hovering approximately 25 feet off the ground, below a tree line near the center of their backyard, at an estimated distance of 90 feet. The eyewitness exited their vehicle briefly before retrieving their phone to record the event. The spouse of the eyewitness came outside to assess the situation. The spouse also witnessed the light, describing it as a “brilliant red sphere” about one meter in diameter. The center of the red sphere appeared to be a white plasma “sun” about the size of a basketball. The orb slowly rose and moved to the left, and both eyewitnesses observed a second, identical orb, hovering above the other orb.
The eyewitness then began recording the event using an iPhone 14 Pro Max, capturing the footage depicted in this video. As the eyewitness began recording, the orbs moved westward together above a nearby tree line. The witnesses described the orbs’ motion as silent and smooth, and as moving in tandem as though they were flying in formation or tethered together. As the orbs moved out of sight, both eyewitnesses saw them appear to merge. The eyewitnesses estimated that the orbs moved from their initial position before disappearing from view at an estimated distance of 75 yards. This observation occurred within 25 miles of the “Triangle Orbs,” “Red Orb Rotation,” and “Orbs Over the Pond,” sightings at a location well known to them, which is sparsely populated.
The description above is derived from statements provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by eyewitnesses to the event. The FBI assesses the individuals who reported this event as credible. The subject matter described in files FBI-UAP-D009 through FBI-UAP-D010 and depicted in the video footage FBI-UAP-PR004 corresponds to reports originating from the same general area in the northeastern United States.