FBI INFRARED 2025
FBI helicopter infrared, object captured BELOW the platform — geometrically unusual.
Infrared still: unidentified object below helicopter, western United States, September 2025.
FILED BY FBISeptember 2025Western United States

What you’re looking at
Infrared still where the war.gov caption explicitly notes the unidentified object is positioned BELOW the helicopter capturing it. This is a meaningful detail — most public UAP imagery captures objects at or above the sensor altitude.
Context
B7 sits in the September 2025 sub-cluster. The 'below helicopter' framing is the single most specific positional fact in the entire FBI cluster's public metadata.
Why this matters
An object operating beneath a federal helicopter in the western U.S. invites questions across the full plausibility spectrum: low-flying drone, terrain-following aircraft, an unfamiliar atmospheric phenomenon, or — at the speculative end — something that was the subject of the helicopter's surveillance to begin with.
What it does NOT show
Altitude, ground clearance, and the helicopter's altitude itself are not given. 'Below' is a relative term until both endpoints are pinned.
Open questions
What altitude was the helicopter at?
How far below — feet, hundreds of feet, thousands?
Was the helicopter conducting surveillance ON this object, or did it appear during another mission?
Was an aerial chase or tracking attempt made?
Evidence rating
A half-step above the rest of the FBI cluster — the platform geometry (helicopter, object below) is more specific than the other captions, which raises evidentiary value.
Listen
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Infrared still: unidentified object below helicopter, western United States, September 2025.
Colophon
- Filename
- FBI-Photo-B7.jpg
- Source
- https://www.war.gov/portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/Slideshow/FBI-Photo-B7-.jpg
- Agency
- FBI · FBI-Photo-B7
- Cluster
- fbi infrared 2025
- Release
- RELEASE 01
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Companion FBI infrared frame, December 2025 western U.S. window.
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FBI-Photo-B2
Earliest dated frame in the FBI infrared cluster — September 2025.
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FBI-Photo-B18
Multiple unidentified objects in a single FBI infrared frame.
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FBI-Photo-B20
Final frame of the September FBI sub-cluster, multiple objects per caption.
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