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DOE-UAP-D005 — Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, 2015
- File
- DOE-UAP-D005
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Incident date
- 9/1/15
- Location
- Texas
- Released in
- Release 04 (2026-07-10)
- File type
Topics: Nuclear sites & Los Alamos
This file contains imagery and a report documenting the circumstances surrounding a September 1, 2015, incident involving an unidentified object intruding the airspace above the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. The Pantex Plant is a sensitive national security site that contains the primary facility for the assembly, disassembly, maintenance, and life-extension of nuclear weapons. Pages 5 and 6 of this report were originally released under the PURSUE initiative in a more redacted form on May 22, 2026. (See: DOE-UAP-D001, Enhanced Pantex Imagery)
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TL;DR
Even a two‑page PDF can’t hide a diamond‑shaped mystery.
- DOE-UAP-D005, Dept. of Energy report, September 1 2015, Pantex Plant, Texas.
- Radar tracked silent, diamond‑shaped object west of plant, non‑threatening, no propulsion visible.
- No official conclusion in the file
Previous: DOE-UAP-D004 — Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, 1949
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Same release: Release 04
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