FBI UFO Sighting, September 2023: Composite Sketch
Official file: FBI September 2023 Sighting - Composite Sketch
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Key facts
- Document type
- Document
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- R01 · 2026-05-08
- Incident date
- 9/1/23
- Incident location
- United States
- Coordinates
- 39.7837304, -100.445882
- Pages legible
- 0/1
- VIRIN
- 260508-O-D0360-1053
Official 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.
✦ AI summary
This single-page document, filed as the composite sketch for the FBI's September 2023 sighting, is a full-color illustration with no text, caption, title block or agency letterhead. It shows an elongated, oval or cigar-shaped craft with a smooth metallic gold-bronze surface, facing left, hovering low in a clear blue daytime sky, with an intense bright white starburst glow at its leading edge. Below is a rural scene: a grass field bordered by a tree line, a paved path or road along the lower-left edge, and a few small dark specks in the grass that may be people or objects.
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▸Transcript(0 of 1 pages legible)
[PAGE 1] [Diagram: full-color composite illustration of a witness's description of a UAP. An elongated, oval/cigar-shaped craft with a smooth metallic gold-bronze surface hovers low in a clear blue daytime sky, facing left, with an intense bright white starburst glow/halo at its leading edge. Below, a rural scene: a grass field bordered by a tree line, a paved path/road along the lower-left edge, and a few small dark specks in the grass that may be people or objects. No caption, title block, agency letterhead, or any text is present on the page.]
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo
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