war.gov PURSUE Release 02 – DOE/Pantex: UAP Report on US Nuclear Weapons Assembly Facility (UCNI-classified)

Two pages (pages 5–6) of a six-page Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, declassified as DOE-UAP-D001. Pantex is the only US facility for the assembly and disassembly of nuclear weapons (managed by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC). Notable features: (1) UCNI marking (Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information) – a DOE-specific category for information whose unauthorized disclosure could endanger national security. (2) Redaction under FOIA exemption (b)(3) with UCNI as the statutory basis (Atomic Energy Act) – the same legal basis used for nuclear weapons design information. (3) Sandia National Labs performed the image enhancement ('Sandia National Labs Enhanced Images of the Object'). (4) Original source: the facility's ground surveillance radar tower. The narrative pages 1–4 were not declassified. Significance: A UAP sighting at the only US nuclear weapons assembly facility, analyzed by Sandia (the leading US nuclear weapons research laboratory), constitutes one of the most significant nuclear UAP pieces of evidence in the system. Source: DOE-UAP-D001, war.gov Release 02, pursueindex.com.