Declassified UAP

FBI September 2023 Sighting - Serial 003

Agency
FBI
Format
Document, 2 pages
Incident date
9/1/23
Released
Release 01, May 8, 2026
Source
war.gov
Topics
Lights in the sky

Description from war.gov

This is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a US citizen regarding their first-hand account of a UAP encounter at a US test site. USPER described an object "metallic bronze in color."

Redactions war.gov lists this record as redacted. Withheld material is blacked out in the file itself.

2 pages, 347 words of text

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-1 of 2- FD-302 (Rev. 5-8-10) OFFICIAL RECORD Dosument partie pants have digitaly signee Al sigratures have been verfied by a cerified FOl monaton syster FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of entry 104/2023 On September 2023, and FBI Special Agent and interviewed via Facetime video in at the time of the interview). After being advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature of the interview, provided the following information: was On September 2023 at around 9:00 am, was at driving east to a test site to acquire data for LiDAR testing with and behind them, driving a GMC AT4 with was behind them driving a sprinter van. were driving an F150. as his passenger. was The vehicles drove through a couple of gates and saw a bright light over the horizon. The light was stationary in the air, then started moving to the right and then disappeared. could see the light through the top right of the vehicle's windshield. The light was bright white and was visible for ten seconds before it disappeared. The light stayed the same size throughout the incident. thought the light was ten to twenty miles away. did not notice any interference with his vehicle. pointed the light out to but looked in the wrong direction. was also tall and had his seat leaned back so he was not in a good position to see the light. was indifferent to the light until they got to the first test site and and said they saw it too. Investigation on 09/ /2023 at United States (Other (Facetime Video)) File # Date drafted 10/ /2023 by This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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FD-302a (Rev. 5-8-10) September 2023 | _, On 09/ /2023 , Page 2 of 2 thought the light might have been a meteor coming straight toward them and burning up in the atmosphere.

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Machine summary

Written by Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) on May 22, 2026, from the record's text and war.gov's description. It is not part of the record and can contain errors; check it against the document.

This is an FBI FD-302 interview report, dated October 2023 (date of entry), documenting a September 2023 incident at a U.S. test site. The document records an FBI Special Agent's Facetime interview with a U.S. citizen who, along with several colleagues, observed an aerial phenomenon while driving to a LiDAR testing location. The witness described a stationary bright white light on the horizon that moved to the right and disappeared within approximately ten seconds. The group was traveling in three vehicles. The witness estimated the object was ten to twenty miles away and noted no vehicle interference.

The document is notable for heavy redactions throughout — all names of witnesses, agents, and locations are withheld. The "metallic bronze" description referenced in the record's metadata does not appear in the surviving OCR text, suggesting additional content may be missing or on redacted pages. The witness's own tentative explanation was a meteor burning up in the atmosphere. The report is two pages and represents a routine witness interview format; no physical evidence or instrumented data from the LiDAR equipment is referenced.

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Closest matches by the text of the documents.

  1. FBI-UAP-D010 FD-302-71, “Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2026  FBI Document 2026
  2. FBI-UAP-D028 FD-302, “Dark Triangle with Lights,” 2011 FBI Document 2011
  3. FBI-UAP-D001 FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022  FBI Document February, 2022
  4. FBI-UAP-D032 FD-302, “Slow-moving Objects,” 2026 FBI Document 2026
  5. FBI-UAP-D030 FD-302, “Large Triangle with Red Lights,” 2023 FBI Document 2023
  6. FBI-UAP-D009 FD-302-67, “Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2026  FBI Document 2026