The Black Triangle over Bagram

At about 4:30 in the morning local time a pilot was outside looking at the stars with another pilot when he "noticed that the stars were getting blacked out over Bagram". Something huge was going overhead from west to east. He described a silent equilateral triangle with no lights visible, holding a steady speed and altitude. He put the speed at possibly 150 knots and the size at 500 feet. As it passed over, the other pilot turned to him: "did you see that?"

He had been activated as a reservist to go to Afghanistan. The record gives June 2002 but no day. He told the FBI he never discussed the sighting with anyone and never found anything that could explain it.

What is on the record

The source is an FBI FD-302 interview record from March 2024, FBI-UAP-D024, released in the Department of War's PURSUE release of 7 August 2026. The Bagram night is the third event he describes. The first two are high-altitude lights he saw from the cockpit years later, which have their own page. His name is withheld, as is a passage about his service.

The release pairs the interview with an FBI digital rendering, FBI-UAP-D025, titled "Airborne Triangle, 2002". It shows a vast unlit triangle blotting out the stars and the Milky Way. It depicts what the witness described and is not a photograph. No photograph or video of the object exists.

The record has soft edges. He says he "could not fully see the shape of the object", so the triangle and its size are what the vanishing stars implied. Bagram is named but the document does not say he stood on the airfield. Some press calls him a former military pilot, where the record says only reservist. Nobody interviewed the second pilot.

Why it sits where it does

The page grades L1, one channel. Everything traces to one man's memory, recorded some twenty-two years later. He is redacted, so the record carries no identified witness and the page cannot reach the official-record tier. No ordinary explanation is offered in the record or was found outside it. A tier measures sourcing, never truth. What crossed the stars over Bagram is not resolved here.