Test Site Witness Describes Gray Metallic Object, September 2023
FBI September 2023 Sighting - Serial 4
FBI 302 interview with a US citizen who provided a first-hand account of a UAP encounter at a US test site on September 1, 2023, describing the object as metallic/gray in color.
Brief
An FBI special agent conducted a 302 interview — the Bureau's standard witness-statement form — with a US citizen reporting direct observation of an unidentified aerial phenomenon at an undisclosed US test site. The witness's sole physical description on record characterizes the object as metallic/gray in color. The source file is a scanned PDF for which OCR has not been run; no page-level text is extractable, so quotes and a detailed walkthrough cannot be produced. The document was publicly released on May 8, 2026, under the Department of War UAP disclosure.
Metadata
- Agency
- FBI
- Release
- 5/8/26
- Incident
- 9/1/23
- Location
- United States
- Type
- PDF • .pdf
- Length
- 2 pages
- Tags
- metallic/gray, test site, 2023, FBI 302, civilian witness, United States
Key points
- Document type is an FBI 302, the Bureau's standard form for recording witness interviews — its use here signals this account was treated as an evidentiary record, not an informal report.
- Incident occurred at a US test site, a detail that carries classification sensitivity and likely explains the scanned-only release format.
- The sole physical descriptor provided in the listing is the object's color and material quality: metallic/gray.
- The witness is identified only as a US citizen (USPER), with rank or affiliation withheld or unrecorded in the available description.
Most interesting
- FBI 302s are legally significant documents — they are used in federal proceedings and carry implicit penalties for false statements by the interviewee.
- The test-site location, while unspecified, narrows the witness pool considerably and raises the question of whether the witness held an active security clearance.
- The descriptor 'metallic/gray' aligns with witness language found across multiple independent UAP reports from 2017 onward, including those collected under the AARO reporting framework.
- The September 1, 2023 incident date places this event within the window after Congress passed the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, potentially affecting how the Bureau was directed to handle and document such reports.