Defense Contractor Witnesses Silent Cigar-Shaped Object During Restricted-Airspace Test Operations, September 2023

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Date of entry 10/[redacted]/2023

On [redacted] September [redacted], 2023, [redacted] and FBI Special Agent [redacted] interviewed [redacted] (office and cell), in Building [redacted].

[redacted] supervisor sat in on the interview. After being advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature of the interview, [redacted] provided the following information:

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On [redacted] September [redacted], 2023, [redacted] was with [redacted] contractors working on a special project with [redacted]. She had restricted the air space in [redacted] for the upcoming tests. At 7:02 am, the contractors received the base's standard [redacted] brief, got into three vehicles, and began driving to the site they were going to use for testing.

[redacted] drove the first vehicle with [redacted] as the front passenger. [redacted] contractors and [redacted] were in the second and third vehicles.

Between 7:15 and 7:30 am, [redacted] drove down to a gate that restricted access to part of the [redacted]. [redacted] attempted to open the gate remotely using a fob. The gate opened just a little and then closed on three separate tries. On the fourth attempt the gate opened completely and stayed open. There were no prior operational problems with that particular gate and there were no operating issues with the gate after September [redacted].

As [redacted] was driving through the gate she looked up and saw a

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Date drafted 10/[redacted]/2023
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cigar shaped object with an extremely bright light southwest of them approximately 500 to 3000 feet above the nearest tree line (agent note: the tree line was approximately one mile southwest of [redacted] position). The object was already there when she looked up. The object was almost hovering, slowly moving from east to west. The light was an intense diamond white light with what appeared to be a ring around the light and was located on the eastern end of the object. The light was pointing southeast and looking at it (the light) was like looking into the sun. The object was "metallic bronze in color" and was the length of two or three Blackhawk helicopters lined up nose to tail. The width of the object was approximately the width of one and a half Blackhawks but was hard to determine due the light on the object's eastern end which may have been obscuring part of the body. The object was completely silent.

[redacted] was initially annoyed when she saw the object because she had restricted the ranges for the tests they were going to conduct that morning but then she realized the object was not an aircraft or drone. [redacted] inched her vehicle forward while she and [redacted] watched the object. They watched the object for five to ten seconds and then the object just disappeared. The sky was clear with no clouds and the object did not leave any contrails. [redacted] and [redacted] searched the sky but did not see the object again. [redacted] did not notice any interference with her vehicle's engine while the object was visible. She only observed the one object and felt it left when it saw them.

[redacted] drove to the test site where [redacted], who was a passenger in the second vehicle, said he saw the object too.

[redacted] would not have reported the object if she had seen it by herself. Several of her co-workers subsequently made fun of her due to her report.

No photos or video of the object were taken by [redacted] or the contractors. [redacted] had seen most of the aircraft and drones used by the US military during her fifteen years working at [redacted] and had never seen anything like the object she observed.