FBI Serial-3: Metallic-bronze cigar object at restricted facility
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AI-generated illustration — not actual footage or evidence; an interpretive depiction based on the documented account



On a September 2023 morning around 07:02, three vehicles conducting a survey at a restricted facility observed a cigar-shaped object with an intense diamond-white light on its eastern end. The object hovered briefly, then drifted east-to-west; the primary witness — with 15 years of aerospace experience — could identify all standard military aircraft and drones, but had "never seen anything like" this object. It was "completely silent" and vanished after 5–10 seconds.
Key quotes
“"Cigar shaped object with an extremely bright light... metallic bronze in color... the length of two or three Blackhawk helicopters... The object was completely silent."
From fbi-serial-3-redacted page 2
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Related documents
FBI Serial-3 (redacted, 2023)
serial-3_redacted.pdf