FBI SEPTEMBER 2023 SIGHTING - SERIAL 4

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FBI SEPTEMBER 2023 SIGHTING - SERIAL 4 is a declassified record from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, dated 2023-09-01, classification DECLASSIFIED. It is part of PURSUE Release 01 — the Pentagon's first public unsealing of UAP records under the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters program, published on 2026-05-08 at war.gov/UFO/. UAP.WATCH has indexed the full text locally so the document can be read, searched, and cited without leaving the site.

Linked incidents

• United States (undisclosed) — SEP 2023 (PURSUE-026)
• Western United States (undisclosed) — SEP 2023 (PURSUE-019)
• Southeastern United States (undisclosed) — 2023 (PURSUE-020)

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OFFICIAL RECORD

FD-302 (Rev. 5-8-10)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of entry: 10/  /2023
On September 2023,  and  and FBI Special Agent  interviewed  ( office and  cell), in Building  the  and  supervisor sat in on the interview. After being advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature of the interview,  provided the following information:
( /   had been the    /  at    for  years.
On September 2023, was with contractors working on a special project with She had restricted the air space in for the upcoming tests. At 7:02 am, the contractors received the bases' standard ( brief, got into three vehicles, and began driving to the site they were going to use for testing.
( /   ) drove the first vehicle with   as the front passenger.    contractors    and   were in the second and third vehicles.
Between 7:15 and 7:30 am,  drove down  to a gate that restricted access to part of the  attempted to open the gate remotely using a fob. The gate opened just a little and then closed on three separate tries. On the fourth attempt the gate opened completely and stayed open. There were no prior operational problems with that particular gate and there were no operating issues with the gate after September
As  was driving through the gate she looked up and saw a
Investigation on: 09/ /2023
at: United States (In Person)
File #: - -
Date drafted: 10/ /2023
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cigar shaped object with an extremely bright light southwest of them approximately 500 to 3000 feet above the nearest tree line (agent note: the tree line was approximately one mile south west of  position). The object was already there when she looked up. The object was almost hovering, slowly moving from east to west. The light was an intense diamond white light with what appeared to be a ring around the light and was located on the eastern end of the object. The light was pointing south east and looking at it (the light) was like looking into the sun. The object was "metallic bronze in color" and was the length of two or three Blackhawk helicopters lined up nose to tail. The width of the object was approximately the width of one and a half Blackhawks but was hard to determine due the light on the object's eastern end which may have been obscuring part of the body. The object was completely silent.
(Blackened out) was initially annoyed when she saw the object because she had restricted the ranges for the tests they were going to conduct that morning but then she realized the object was not an aircraft or drone. (Blackened out) inched her vehicle forward while she and (Blackened out) watched the object. They watched the object for five to ten seconds and then the object just disappeared. The sky was clear with no clouds and the object did leave any contrails. (Blackened out) and (Blackened out) searched the sky but did not see the object again. (Blackened out) did not notice any interference with her vehicle's engine while the object was visible. She only observed the one object and felt it left when it saw them.
(/  drove to the test site where   who was a passenger in the second vehicle said he saw the object too.
(Blackened out) would not have reported the object if she had seen it by herself. Several of her co-workers subsequently made fun of her due to her report.
(No photos or video of the object were taken by or the contractors. had seen most of the aircraft and drones used by the US military during her fifteen years working at and had never seen anything like the object she observed.