FBI September 2023 Sighting Serial — United States
An AARO disclosure era case from United States. 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.
Background
In September 2023, in United States, U.S. government investigators recorded an unidentified-object incident later released to the public on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is a case from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office disclosure era following the 2022 establishment of the modern UAP investigative apparatus. The case was filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose Knoxville, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and other field offices routed UFO reports to headquarters under the Bureau’s standing protocols for the protection of vital installations.
What the document records
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 number of witnesses is not specified in the released document.
Type of case
The case includes reports of figures or beings associated with the object.
Status
All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) by default. The federal government has not concluded that the events were anomalous, has not concluded that they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series in the late 1940s), atmospheric optical phenomena such as sundogs and lenticular clouds, and astronomical objects including Venus, the Moon, and meteors near the horizon.