FBI September 2023 Sighting - Serial 004

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Agency
FBI
Category
fbi
Type
PDF
Event Date
9/1/23
Released
2026-05-08
Size
457.8 KB
Original Filename
serial-3_redacted.pdf
Location
United States
Status
REDACTED

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/gray in color."

The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.

Text of the document

Machine-extracted from the PDF war.gov published (its text layer or OCR), so expect errors, especially in names, numbers and handwriting; the PDF is the authoritative copy. Lines that did not extract as readable text are left out. Showing about 691 words from pages 1, 2 of 2.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of entiy thee 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: for - years. wor■ki■ng ■on■ a special project with - She had restricted the air spacee ine for the upcoming tests. At 7■:0■2 am, the contractors receivede the bases' standard - ( brief, got into threee vehicles, and began driving to the site they were going to use for testing. drove the first vehicle with - - contractors - - and - - were in the second ande third vehicles. gate that restricted access to part of the - - attempted to opene the gate remotely using a fob. The gate opened just a little and then closede on three separate tries. On the fourth attempt the gate opened completelye and stayed open. There were no prior operational problems with thate particular gate and there were no operating issues with the gate aftere As - was driving through the gate she looked up and saw ae This document contains neither recommendations noc conclusions of the FBI. It is the pcoperty of teh FBI and is loaned to yow-agency; it and its contents ace not to be distributed outside yow-agency.

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cigar shaped obj ect wi th an ext remel y bright light southwest of them approximately 500 to 3000 feet above the nearest tree line (agent note: t he t ree l i ne was approximatel y one mile sout h west of posit ion) . The object was already there when she looked up. The obj ect was al most hovering, slowl y moving from east to west . The l i ght was an i ntense diamond white l ight with what appeared t o be a ri ng around the light and was located on the east ern end of the object. The light was pointi ng south east and l ooking at i t (the light ) was l i ke looking i nto the sun. The object was "metallic br onze in colorll and was the length of two or three Blackhawk he licopters l ined up nose to tail. The width of the object was approximat ely the wi dth of one and a hal f Bl ackhawks but was hard to determine due the l i ght on t he obj ect' s eastern end which may have been obscuring part of the body. The object was compl etel y silent . (■ JIii was initially annoyed when she saw t he object because she had restri cted the ranges for the tests they were going t o conduct that morni ng but then she realized the obj ect was not an aircraft or drone. - inched her vehi cl e forward while she and watched the obj ect_ They wat ched the obj ect for f ive t o ten seconds and then t he obj ect j ust disappeared. The sky was cl ear with no clouds and the obj ect did leave any contrai ls. and - searched the sky but did not see the obj ect again. - did not notice any i nt erference with her vehicl e ' s engi ne while the object was vi si ble . She onl y observed the one object and felt it left when i t saw them. (■ Jill drove to the t est site where ■■■■ who was a passenger i n the second vehicle said he saw the obj ect too. (■ JIii woul d not have repor ted the obj ect i f s he had seen it by hersel f . Several of her co-workers subsequentl y made fun of her due to her (■ Jill No photos or video of the obj ect were t aken by - or the contractors . - had seen most of the ai rcraft and d-r ones used by t he US military during her fifteen years worki ng a t ■■■■ and had never seen anything like the obj ect she observed.

Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive

This file is one of FBI's 104 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the FBI agency block it ranks #85 of 104 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #316 of 450.

That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (316 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.

For the broader cluster context, this file is part of FBI 2023 UAP Investigation - the 4-document FBI investigation cluster from September 2023 - three FD-302 witness interviews and an FBI Lab composite sketch of a bronze metallic cigar-shaped object at a US test site. The cluster page walks through all 4 member files with regional grouping, sensor breakdown, and standout analysis.

Anomalousness Index: 55/100

Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.

🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology

The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.

sensor quality (eyewitness only) 30 × 0.25 = 7.5

No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the FBI, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.

witness credibility (federal agent) 90 × 0.2 = 18.0

The witness here is FBI personnel, entering the report into the federal investigative system through standard channels. That's one of the rubric's higher credibility tiers - trained federal investigative staff, weighted level with a trained aviator and below only an astronaut witness - though the posture is reactive (responding to a report) rather than an active operational context.

corroboration (single witness instrument) 60 × 0.2 = 12.0

On corroboration, this file from the FBI - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.

kinematic anomaly (no kinematic data) 30 × 0.15 = 4.5

The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.

mundane explanation available (weak mundane candidate) 70 × 0.1 = 7.0

Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.

official disposition (unresolved no review) 60 × 0.1 = 6.0

This file from the FBI is catalogued as unresolved, with no formal review process having concluded - logged into the system, but not yet finalized by any review. The rubric treats that differently from 'open after review,' because the absence of a completed review is itself part of the file's status, not a placeholder for one.

Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 55/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.

Related files in FBI

Other PURSUE files in the same category, ranked by Anomalousness Index.

FBI · VIDEO SCORE 70

FBI-UAP-PR001, “Triangle Orbs,” Northeastern United States, 2021

FBI · VIDEO SCORE 70

FBI-UAP-PR002, “Red Orb Rotation,” Northeastern United States, 2022

FBI · VIDEO SCORE 70

FBI-UAP-PR003, “Orbs Over the Pond,” 2024

FBI · VIDEO SCORE 70

FBI-UAP-PR004, “Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025

FBI · VIDEO SCORE 70

FBI-UAP-PR005, Digital Recreation, Narrative Statement 3-1, Western United States Event, 2…

FBI · VIDEO SCORE 70

FBI-UAP-PR006, Digital Recreation, Narrative Statement 3-2, Western United States Event, 2…

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Verification

SHA-256:

abe02815d6331854374cee46db6b1f948f83d9115d2121ac86f5836fef1b65a0

This hash is the SHA-256 of the file body war.gov served on the verification date above. War.gov has re-processed some file bodies since first release (re-compression + OCR, no content removed - see /changes); we re-verify and record the change rather than silently serve a stale hash. How to check this yourself →

Source: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/serial-3_redacted.pdf

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