A pilot interviewed by the FBI in March 2024 recalled seeing a large, silent triangular shape pass over Bagram, Afghanistan, in June 2002. According to the interview record, the witness and another pilot were outside looking at the stars when part of the sky appeared to become obscured. The account describes an unlit shape moving from west to east at about 04:30 local time.
The surviving source is a retrospective interview recorded more than twenty years after the alleged event. It preserves what one person told investigators; it does not contain a contemporary 2002 report or a separate account from the second pilot.
A shape against the stars
The interviewee said the episode occurred after activation as a reservist for Afghanistan. The visible text does not establish a service branch, unit or rank, and UKPX does not fill those gaps. The account identifies Bagram but gives no precise observation point, exact day in June or duration.
The witness recalled that the stars began to be blacked out and that something apparently huge passed overhead. The description was of an equilateral triangle, travelling silently at a consistent apparent speed and altitude, with no visible lights. Importantly, the witness also said the shape could not be fully seen. The triangle was an interpretation of a dark appearance against the night sky, rather than a clearly illuminated structure shown in a photograph.
The reported speed was possibly 150 knots and the estimated size was 500 feet. These are witness estimates. The 500-foot figure describes size, not altitude. The file gives no measured distance, altitude or calculation that would allow either estimate to be independently tested. Without range information, an apparent span cannot reliably establish the physical dimensions of an unfamiliar object.
The second pilot
According to the interviewee, the other pilot also saw the triangular appearance and asked, “did you see that?” The released file does not include that person’s own interview or signed statement. This is a report of a second witness within one person’s recollection, rather than two independently documented testimonies.
The interviewee said there had been no further discussion of the sighting with other people and that no one else was heard discussing it. A later reference to looking through data and finding no explanation supplies no visible method or underlying records. It cannot be treated as a documented elimination of all conventional possibilities.
What the 2024 document does and does not contain
The Bagram account appears at the end of page 2 and on page 3 of FBI-UAP-D024, a three-page FD-302 interview record. The interview month is March 2024 and the entry month is April 2024; the exact days are redacted. The form’s revision date is unrelated to either the interview or the 2002 incident.
Most of the same interview concerns separate observations of white lights during airline flights in 2023 and 2024. It discusses a phone video filmed in February 2024 from an aircraft cockpit in North America. That footage is not a video of the June 2002 Bagram observation. UKPX keeps those accounts separate and does not use the later lights or video to strengthen the triangle claim.
No Bagram photograph, film, radar return or contemporaneous log is included in the three released pages. The FBI form also states that it contains neither the Bureau’s recommendations nor its conclusions. Recording an interview does not mean that the FBI verified the reported object or endorsed an explanation.
Outcome: Insufficient Evidence
This is an identifiable place and month attached to a distinctive witness recollection, but the available evidence is too limited to establish what passed overhead. The long interval before the recorded interview, hidden identity, incomplete view of the outline and absence of independently examinable supporting material all constrain the assessment. UKPX classifies the case as Insufficient Evidence. The source provides no resolved identification, but its omissions also prevent a confident claim that an extraordinary aircraft was present.
Location and sources
The map uses a broad Bagram town reference, approximately 34.97°N, 69.27°E, in Parwan, Afghanistan. It does not pinpoint the observer, an aircraft track or a military installation. No exact site is supplied in the interview and this record is not a public-place visiting recommendation.
Read FBI-UAP-D024, the complete released interview (three pages; June 2002 account begins on page 2 and continues on page 3). UKPX reviewed all three pages. GeoNames Bagrām populated-place record provides the broad location reference, not corroboration of the observation. Source and location records checked 13 November 2026.