diff --git a/docs/javascript-artifact-reconstruction.md b/docs/javascript-artifact-reconstruction.md
index 90dbb92efb..4707ef0859 100644
--- a/docs/javascript-artifact-reconstruction.md
+++ b/docs/javascript-artifact-reconstruction.md
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ SHA-256 digests, inventory IDs, ASAR container identity, and `.asar.unpacked`
 status. Direct ASAR inputs and filesystem-backed ASAR files nested beneath a
 directory are supported.
 
+JavaScript and HTML source ranges retain an initial UTF-8 BOM as one UTF-16
+code unit, matching the original bytes identified by the artifact digest.
+
 If an ASAR declares an unpacked companion entry but the corresponding
 `<archive>.unpacked` file is absent from the operator-supplied artifact set, REA
 keeps the ASAR occurrence with `hash_status: unavailable`, records an explicit
diff --git a/src/artifacts/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactFiles.ts b/src/artifacts/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactFiles.ts
index 6f9cdb845b..84107c366f 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactFiles.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactFiles.ts
@@ -222,7 +222,12 @@ const readText = async (
   try {
     return {
       included: true,
-      value: new TextDecoder("utf-8", { fatal: true }).decode(bytes),
+      value: new TextDecoder("utf-8", {
+        fatal: true,
+        ignoreBOM:
+          input.expected.kind === "javascript" ||
+          input.expected.kind === "html",
+      }).decode(bytes),
     };
   } catch (cause: unknown) {
     // Non-UTF8 bytes are counted; the fixed reason preserves the schema.
diff --git a/tests/boundary/cli/javascriptArtifactBomRanges.test.ts b/tests/boundary/cli/javascriptArtifactBomRanges.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9a542062c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/boundary/cli/javascriptArtifactBomRanges.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { expect } from "vitest";
+
+import { parseEvidence } from "../../../src/domain/evidence.js";
+import { javascriptApplicationAnalysisResultSchema } from "../../../src/domain/javascript/javascriptApplicationAnalysis.js";
+import {
+  bomSourceCases,
+  createBomArtifact,
+  expectBomSourceRange,
+} from "../../fixtures/javascriptArtifactBom.js";
+import { cliTest } from "../../support/cli/cliFixture.js";
+
+for (const format of ["directory", "asar"] as const) {
+  for (const command of ["analyze-javascript-application", "analyze"]) {
+    cliTest(
+      `${command} preserves original BOM coordinates for ${format}`,
+      async ({ cli }) => {
+        const files = Object.fromEntries(
+          bomSourceCases.map((fixture) => [
+            fixture.path,
+            Buffer.from(`\uFEFF${fixture.source}`),
+          ]),
+        );
+        const input = await createBomArtifact(format, {
+          ...files,
+          "dep.js": "export const dependency = true;",
+        });
+        const output = await cli.run({ arguments: [command, input, "--json"] });
+        expect(output.exitCode).toBe(0);
+        const result = javascriptApplicationAnalysisResultSchema.parse(
+          parseEvidence(output.json).normalized_result,
+        );
+        expect(result.statistics).toMatchObject({
+          parse_failures: 0,
+          invalid_utf8_files: 0,
+        });
+        for (const fixture of bomSourceCases)
+          expectBomSourceRange(
+            result.graph,
+            fixture,
+            Buffer.from(`\uFEFF${fixture.source}`),
+          );
+      },
+    );
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/boundary/filesystem/javascriptArtifactBomRanges.test.ts b/tests/boundary/filesystem/javascriptArtifactBomRanges.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..01c1741914
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/boundary/filesystem/javascriptArtifactBomRanges.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+import { expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { reconstructJavaScriptArtifact } from "../../../src/application/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactReconstruction.js";
+import {
+  bomSourceCases,
+  createBomArtifact,
+  expectBomSourceRange,
+} from "../../fixtures/javascriptArtifactBom.js";
+
+for (const format of ["directory", "asar"] as const) {
+  for (const fixture of bomSourceCases) {
+    for (const prefix of ["", "\uFEFF"] as const) {
+      it(`${format} preserves ${fixture.kind} original ranges with ${prefix === "" ? "no BOM" : "a UTF-8 BOM"}`, async () => {
+        const source =
+          fixture.kind === "html"
+            ? `${prefix}${fixture.source}`
+            : `${prefix}${fixture.source}\nglobalThis.__rea_bom_executed = true; throw new Error("must remain inert");`;
+        const bytes = Buffer.from(source);
+        const input = await createBomArtifact(format, {
+          [fixture.path]: bytes,
+          "dep.js": "export const dependency = true;",
+        });
+        const result = await reconstructJavaScriptArtifact({
+          input_path: input,
+        });
+        expect(result.statistics).toMatchObject({
+          parse_failures: 0,
+          invalid_utf8_files: 0,
+        });
+        expect(Reflect.get(globalThis, "__rea_bom_executed")).toBeUndefined();
+        expectBomSourceRange(result.graph, fixture, bytes);
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  it(`${format} preserves accepted BOM handling for package, JSON and source maps`, async () => {
+    const input = await createBomArtifact(format, {
+      "package.json": '\uFEFF{"name":"bom-package","main":"dep.js"}',
+      "data.json": '\uFEFF{"__proto__":"owned","control":true}',
+      "app.js.map":
+        '\uFEFF{"version":3,"sources":["original.js"],"sourcesContent":["export const original = true;"],"names":[],"mappings":"AAAA"}',
+      "dep.js": "export const dependency = true;",
+    });
+    const result = await reconstructJavaScriptArtifact({ input_path: input });
+    expect(result.statistics).toMatchObject({
+      parse_failures: 0,
+      invalid_utf8_files: 0,
+    });
+    const observations = result.graph.nodes.flatMap(
+      ({ observations }) => observations,
+    );
+    expect(
+      observations.some(
+        ({ properties }) =>
+          properties.name === "bom-package" &&
+          properties.parse_status === "included",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+    expect(
+      observations.some(
+        ({ properties }) =>
+          properties.path === "data.json" &&
+          properties.json_parse_status === "included",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+    expect(
+      result.graph.nodes.some(
+        ({ kind, observations }) =>
+          kind === "source-module" &&
+          observations.some(
+            ({ properties }) => properties.source === "original.js",
+          ),
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it(`${format} retains invalid UTF-8 as unavailable rather than replacing bytes`, async () => {
+    const invalid = Buffer.from([0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf, 0xff]);
+    const input = await createBomArtifact(format, {
+      "invalid.js": invalid,
+      "invalid.html": invalid,
+    });
+    const result = await reconstructJavaScriptArtifact({ input_path: input });
+    expect(result.statistics.invalid_utf8_files).toBe(2);
+    const observations = result.graph.nodes.flatMap(
+      ({ observations }) => observations,
+    );
+    for (const path of ["invalid.js", "invalid.html"])
+      expect(
+        observations.some(
+          ({ properties }) =>
+            properties.path === path &&
+            properties.text_status === "invalid-utf8",
+        ),
+      ).toBe(true);
+  });
+}
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/javascriptArtifactBom.ts b/tests/fixtures/javascriptArtifactBom.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..61e2f6b955
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/javascriptArtifactBom.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
+import { mkdir, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { createPackageWithOptions } from "@electron/asar";
+import { parse as parseJavaScript } from "@babel/parser";
+import {
+  defaultTreeAdapter,
+  parse as parseHtml,
+  type DefaultTreeAdapterTypes,
+} from "parse5";
+import { expect } from "vitest";
+
+import type { JavaScriptSourceRange } from "../../src/domain/javascript/javascriptStaticAnalysisTypes.js";
+import type { JavaScriptApplicationGraph } from "../../src/domain/javascript/javascriptApplicationGraph.js";
+import { createTestTempDirectory } from "./temporaryDirectory.js";
+
+export const bomSourceCases = [
+  { path: "import.js", kind: "static-import", source: 'import "./dep.js";' },
+  { path: "require.cjs", kind: "require", source: 'require("./dep.js");' },
+  {
+    path: "index.html",
+    kind: "html",
+    source: '<script src="./dep.js"></script>',
+  },
+] as const;
+
+export const createBomArtifact = async (
+  format: "directory" | "asar",
+  files: Readonly<Record<string, string | Buffer>>,
+): Promise<string> => {
+  const root = await createTestTempDirectory("rea-bom-artifact-");
+  const directory = join(root, "source");
+  await mkdir(directory);
+  await Promise.all(
+    Object.entries(files).map(([path, content]) =>
+      writeFile(join(directory, path), content),
+    ),
+  );
+  if (format === "directory") return directory;
+  const archive = join(root, "app.asar");
+  await createPackageWithOptions(directory, archive, {});
+  return archive;
+};
+
+/** The oracle parses original UTF-8 bytes with their BOM retained. */
+export const expectBomSourceRange = (
+  graph: JavaScriptApplicationGraph,
+  fixture: (typeof bomSourceCases)[number],
+  bytes: Buffer,
+): void => {
+  const original = bytes.toString("utf8");
+  const digest = createHash("sha256").update(bytes).digest("hex");
+  let expectedRange: JavaScriptSourceRange;
+  if (fixture.kind === "html") {
+    const pending: DefaultTreeAdapterTypes.Node[] = [
+      parseHtml(original, { sourceCodeLocationInfo: true }),
+    ];
+    let opening;
+    while (pending.length > 0) {
+      const node = pending.pop();
+      if (node === undefined) break;
+      if (defaultTreeAdapter.isElementNode(node) && node.tagName === "script") {
+        opening = node.sourceCodeLocation?.startTag;
+        break;
+      }
+      if ("childNodes" in node) pending.push(...node.childNodes);
+    }
+    if (opening === undefined) throw new Error("Missing original HTML script");
+    expectedRange = {
+      start: { line: opening.startLine, column: opening.startCol - 1 },
+      end: { line: opening.endLine, column: opening.endCol - 1 },
+    };
+  } else {
+    const statement = parseJavaScript(original, {
+      sourceType: "unambiguous",
+    }).program.body[0];
+    const target =
+      fixture.kind === "require" && statement?.type === "ExpressionStatement"
+        ? statement.expression
+        : statement;
+    if (target?.loc === undefined || target.loc === null)
+      throw new Error("Missing original JavaScript reference");
+    expectedRange = {
+      start: { line: target.loc.start.line, column: target.loc.start.column },
+      end: { line: target.loc.end.line, column: target.loc.end.column },
+    };
+  }
+  const edges = graph.edges.filter(
+    ({ relation, properties, evidence }) =>
+      relation === (fixture.kind === "html" ? "loads" : "imports") &&
+      (fixture.kind === "html"
+        ? properties.script_path === "./dep.js"
+        : properties.kind === fixture.kind &&
+          properties.specifier === "./dep.js") &&
+      evidence.location.available &&
+      evidence.location.value.kind === "source-range" &&
+      evidence.location.value.source === fixture.path,
+  );
+  expect(edges).toHaveLength(1);
+  expect(edges[0]).toMatchObject({
+    properties: { resolved_path: "dep.js" },
+    evidence: {
+      artifact: { available: true, sha256: digest },
+      location: {
+        available: true,
+        value: { kind: "source-range", source: fixture.path, ...expectedRange },
+      },
+    },
+  });
+};