KFDA NewsChannel 10 reported on July 15 that a newly declassified Department of Energy incident file describes an unidentified object near the Pantex nuclear-weapons facility outside Amarillo, Texas. The document was included in the fourth batch released under the U.S. government's UAP records program. The event itself occurred on September 1, 2015, so the news is the release of the official record rather than a new sighting.
According to the released report, a ground-surveillance radar detected an unknown object at about 7:10 a.m. west of the facility, moving north in what was assessed as a non-threatening manner. Pantex personnel were directed to observe it, and two members of the site's police force attempted to intercept it near Pantex Drive.
The officers reportedly followed the object for several miles before losing it as it continued northeast. They said they heard no sound and saw no visible propulsion. The report records their description of a roughly four-foot-tall, two-foot-wide form, diamond-like but rounded at the top, with uncertain dark or multicolored appearance. Those dimensions and colors were estimates made during a moving pursuit, not laboratory measurements.
One passage says the object appeared to accelerate and change direction while being followed. The wording is important: it reports the officers' perception and does not supply a speed plot, radar track, range data or sensor calibration from which acceleration could be independently calculated. The photograph released with the file shows only a small circled point and does not resolve shape or propulsion.
The public record does not provide a final identification. A small balloon, drone or other lightweight airborne object remains plausible given the reported size, but the available text and low-detail image do not establish one explanation. The file is useful because it preserves radar detection, a security response and named institutional provenance; it should not be treated as proof of extraterrestrial technology or of a breach of the facility.