FBI-UAP-PR003, "Orbs Over the Pond," was released on 12 June 2026. The FBI's description: in October 2024, at approximately 1851 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness "observed a light source below the horizon, hovering above a pond at an estimated distance of 2,700 feet."
"The luminous object resembled a 'plasma-like sphere' intermittently changing shape and luminosity. At times, the primary light source appeared to separate into smaller luminous points. A luminous point below the primary source hovered just above the water and did not appear consistent with a surface reflection." It "remained generally stationary for approximately 45 minutes before disappearing," and the eyewitness heard no sound.
"This video was captured by a private citizen on an iPhone and subsequently analyzed and authenticated by the U.S. Government. To protect the individual's privacy, the footage has been cropped. Apart from this privacy-protective measure, no edits, enhancements, or alterations have been made to the visual content." The FBI "assesses the individual who reported this event as highly credible."
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 and enlarged two times around the pond so the light is visible on a phone. Nothing else was changed, and it has not been brightened.