FBI September 2023 Sighting - Serial 003
- Date
- 1 Sep 2023
- Place
- United States (restricted U.S. military/test range)
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
FD-302 interview (entered October 2023) with a U.S. person who was driving to a test site to acquire LiDAR test data around 9:00 a.m. on 1 September 2023, part of a three-vehicle convoy. He saw a stationary bright white light over the horizon that then moved to the right and disappeared after about ten seconds, staying the same size throughout; he estimated it was 10-20 miles away and noticed no vehicle interference. He pointed it out to a passenger who looked the wrong way and missed it, but two others in the convoy later said they also saw it; the witness thought it might have been a meteor burning up.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- Yes: Other
- Yes: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating A single visual sighting of a brief, distant point of light with no shape detail and the witness's own suggested conventional explanation (meteor); no instrumentation and only unspecified secondhand corroboration from other convoy members.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- One primary FD-302 interviewee (LiDAR test-data technician), driving in a three-vehicle convoy; two other convoy members reportedly also saw it
- Sensors
- Visual
- Lights and colour
- Bright white
- Motion
- Stationary, then moved to the right, then disappeared
- Duration
- About 10 seconds
- Altitude or range
- Estimated 10-20 miles away
- Effects
- None noticed on the vehicle
Pentagon files
FBI September 2023 Sighting - Serial 003
Open the original on war.gov
What the file claims
- Unverified
The interviewee thought the light might have been a meteor burning up in the atmosphere.
On the map
39.80° N, 98.60° W, plotted at the centre of the country
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