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Dept. of EnergyRedacted

Unidentified object imaged at Pantex nuclear weapons facility — ground surveillance radar

Date unknownPantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas (approx.)
Analysis — our summary

The document is a Pantex (Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC) Unidentified Object Incident Report comprising pages 5–6 of 6, presenting a ground surveillance radar tower image and enhanced images produced by Sandia National Laboratories. The substantive content of the report — including date, object description, and narrative — is almost entirely redacted under UCNI (Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information) and b(3) exemptions. The images themselves do not reproduce meaningfully in the extracted text.

As reported — verbatim from the document
"Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report — Image from Ground Surveillance Radar Tower" / "Sandia National Labs Enhanced Images of the Object"
Analyst notes — caveats & confidence

Extracted text is almost entirely non-informative: document is UCNI-marked (Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information) and the key fields (date, location detail, object description, witness accounts, resolution) are redacted under b(3). Only structural elements — section headings, page numbers, issuing entity names — survived OCR. Pantex is a DOE nuclear weapons assembly/disassembly facility near Amarillo, TX; its involvement confirms nuclear-facility-adjacent context. Sandia National Labs produced enhanced radar imagery, indicating formal investigation occurred. No incident date recoverable. Confidence is very low due to near-total redaction; record captures document existence only.

Provenance
Source documentDOE-UAP-D001_PANTEX_Image.pdf
Document typeincident report
Reporting agencyDept. of Energy
Source pages2
DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)
Extraction confidence Very lowHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.