FBI September 2023 Sighting - Composite Sketch

United States·9/1/23

Declassified

Government description

Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.

Caption issued by the U.S. Department of War on war.gov/ufo. Verbatim, unedited.

Originating agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Record type

PDF

Incident date

9/1/23

Incident location

United States

Release tranche

Release 01 (May 8, 2026)

Distribution

Cleared for public release

Photograph

FBI September 2023 Sighting - Composite Sketch

Image hosted by war.gov. The original PDF is also downloadable here.

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Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

PURSUE

Places

United States

Agencies

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Dates

2023 9/1/23

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Source: war.gov/ufo · PURSUE Release 01

PURSUE = Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Records released by the U.S. Department of War on May 8, 2026 are unresolved cases for which the government cannot make a definitive determination, and the Department has invited private-sector analysis.