DOE-UAP-D005, Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, 2015
WAR.gov / Department of War PURSUE Release 04
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.
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Short overview
This report documents a September 1, 2015 incident involving an unidentified object in the airspace above the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. The file includes imagery and an account of the response at a sensitive national-security facility involved in nuclear-weapons production.
Why this is interesting
The report combines ground observations with radar tracking and an attempted interception. The reader text records an object approximately 1.75 miles southwest of Z-12 South, moving at 10–15 mph, with additional radar hits as it traveled north-northwest.
Selected passages
- “an object approximately 1.75 miles SW of Z-12 South traveling at 10-15 mph”
- “Several other radar hits were received”
- “attempted to intercept the object”
Background
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)