FBI September 2023 Sighting - Serial 004
- 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 with a female range-operations employee (15 years at the facility) who had restricted the test range's airspace that morning. Driving through a gate that malfunctioned on three attempts before opening on the fourth, she looked up and saw a silent, hovering, slowly east-to-west moving cigar-shaped object, 'metallic bronze in color,' the length of two-to-three Blackhawk helicopters nose to tail, with an intensely bright diamond-white light on its eastern end. She watched it for 5-10 seconds before it disappeared with no contrail; a passenger in a second vehicle also saw it. She said she would not have reported it alone, and coworkers later made fun of her for the report; she had never seen anything like it in 15 years around military aircraft.
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
- Yes: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- Yes: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- Yes: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- Yes: Silent
Why this rating A credentialed, experienced range-operations witness with 15 years of exposure to the relevant airspace's actual aircraft traffic describes a large, silent, detailed object with a specific comparative size reference (Blackhawk helicopters) and instant disappearance with no contrail; corroborated by a second, independent visual witness; still single-sensor (unaided visual only), so short of strong.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- One primary FD-302 interviewee (15-year range-operations employee); one corroborating passenger in a second vehicle
- Sensors
- Visual
- Shape
- Cigar-shaped, metallic bronze
- Size
- Length of two to three Blackhawk helicopters nose to tail; width about 1.5 Blackhawks
- Lights and colour
- Intense diamond-white light with a surrounding ring, on the eastern end
- Motion
- Nearly hovering, moving slowly east to west, then disappeared
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Altitude or range
- 500-3,000 feet above a tree line roughly one mile away
- Effects
- Completely silent; no interference with vehicle engine noted; a gate had opened only partially on three prior attempts that morning before opening fully on the fourth, though not explicitly linked to the object by the witness
Pentagon files
FBI September 2023 Sighting - Serial 004
Open the original on war.gov
What the file claims
- Unverified
The witness said she had seen most U.S. military aircraft and drones used at the facility over 15 years and had never seen anything like the object.
- Unverified
The object was silent, left no contrail, and vanished after 5-10 seconds of observation.
On the map
39.80° N, 98.60° W, plotted at the centre of the country
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