CASE FILE FPR-4
The FBI's Own Video of Two Red Orbs Over a Backyard - Case FPR-4
2026-10-21 · Declassified UAP records
FBI-UAP-PR004, "Northeastern Orb Sighting," was released on 12 June 2026. The FBI's description: 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, at an estimated distance of 90 feet.
The eyewitness's spouse also saw the light, "describing it as a 'brilliant red sphere' about one meter in diameter," with "a white plasma 'sun' about the size of a basketball" at its center. The orb rose and moved to the left, and both witnesses saw "a second, identical orb, hovering above the other orb."
The video was recorded on an iPhone 14 Pro Max. Per the FBI, "as the eyewitness began recording, the orbs moved westward together above a nearby tree line," silent and smooth, "as though they were flying in formation or tethered together." As they moved out of sight, both witnesses saw them appear to merge. The FBI "assesses the individuals who reported this event as credible."
The accompanying interview, FBI-UAP-D009 (FD-302-67, February 2026), records the spouse's account: the red was "brilliant and beautiful" and they had never seen anything that color of red before. It notes the video begins "at the point when they were above the trees and moving away from their backyard." A few weeks later the witness saw several white orbs travel over the house from west to east, much higher. A second interview from the same area, FBI-UAP-D010, is our Case F-10.
The FBI says the subject matter of files FBI-UAP-D004 through D008 and videos FBI-UAP-PR001 through PR003 comes from the same general area of the northeastern United States, and that the July 2025 backyard sighting (FBI-UAP-PR004) happened within 25 miles of those sightings.
Presentation note: the released file shows the vertical phone video inside a wide black frame. In our video it is cropped to the phone picture so it fills a phone screen. Nothing else was changed. The footage is dark because it was filmed at night; it has not been brightened.
The Document
2026
FBI FD-302 — Red Sphere With a 'White Plasma Sun' (2026)
On February ██████, 2026, ██████, email address: ██████, was interviewed by ██████, ██████ and ██████ via videoconference on Microsoft Teams. Also present for the interview was ██████. After being advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature of the interview, ██████ provided the following information:
██████ received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics & Finance from ██████. ██████ previously worked as ██████. ██████ then became an ██████. ██████ currently is the ██████.
██████ was at ██████ residence at ██████. ██████ returned home that night at approximately 9:15PM EST. As ██████ was pulling into their driveway, which slopes downhill towards their residence, ██████ noticed an intense bright light hovering below the tree line in the middle of their backyard. ██████ got out of ██████ vehicle and stared at the strange light for a few moments before reaching back into ██████ vehicle to retrieve ██████ phone so ██████ could take a video of what ██████ was seeing.
At the same time, ██████ was sitting inside expecting ██████ to arrive home. ██████ checked ██████ security camera and saw ██████ standing next to ██████ vehicle looking into the backyard. ██████ then went outside to join ██████ and see what ██████ was looking at. ██████ described the light as a red sphere that was about one meter in diameter. ██████ described the red color as being brilliant and beautiful, and that ██████ had never seen anything that color of red before. ██████ stated that inside the red sphere, at the center, there appeared to be what ██████ described as a "white plasma sun" about the size of a basketball.
As ██████ and ██████ watched, the orb UAP moved up and to their left. They then noticed there was a second, identical orb, hovering above the first one. The orbs then moved together towards the west above the tree line. ██████ stated that from the start of the observation to when the orbs traveled out of sight, they exhibited both a change in altitude and a change in direction. The orbs were silent and moved in a smooth motion. They moved in tandem as if they were flying in formation or were tethered together. As they moved out of sight, ██████ saw the orbs merge together into one orb, or were so close together that ██████ could only see one orb.
██████ and ██████ captured a video of the orbs beginning at the point when they were above the trees and moving away from their backyard. The video is contained as an attachment to this interview document.
A few weeks later, ██████ stated that ██████ saw several white orbs travel over ██████ house from the west to the east. These white orbs were traveling much higher in altitude than the prior red orbs. ██████ described them as appearing the size of a dime held at arm's length.
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
FBI FD-302 (2 pages), released under the PURSUE UAP disclosure — redactions preserved. · Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI-UAP-D009)
The Original File
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Where It Happened
Full Transcript
This is the F.B.I.'s own video. July 2025, the northeastern United States. Two orbs, moving over the trees behind a family's home.
One witness was pulling into the driveway at about nine fifteen at night, and saw an intense bright light hovering below the tree line, in the middle of the backyard.
Their spouse saw them on the security camera, staring into the backyard, and came outside. The spouse described a red sphere about one meter across, a red they had never seen before, with what they called a white plasma sun at the center, the size of a basketball.
The orb moved up and to their left. Then they noticed a second, identical orb, hovering above the first.
The video starts here, once the orbs were already above the trees and moving away.
Silent. Smooth. Moving in tandem, as if flying in formation or tethered together. As they moved out of sight, they seemed to merge into one.
The F.B.I. assesses both witnesses as credible. The interview form says it contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the F.B.I.
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Sources
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