September 2023 FBI Sketch
The Department of War PURSUE Release 01 identifies this item as an FBI PDF titled "FBI September 2023 Sighting - Composite Sketch," with a September 1, 2023 incident date and United States location.1 The released PDF is a single image: a site photograph with an FBI Laboratory rendered graphic overlay.2
Bronze Ellipsoid Above A Field
The graphic places a bronze, horizontally oriented ellipsoid against a bright light in a blue sky above grass, trees, and a paved edge. The release description says the overlay depicts corroborating eyewitness reports of an object that appeared from a bright light, measured approximately 130-195 feet long, and disappeared instantaneously.1
Reconstruction, Not Analysis
This record is not an FBI interview transcript, raw sensor capture, or analytic finding. It is a visual reconstruction tied to a reported September 2023 sighting. The PDF contains no embedded narrative text, no named witnesses, no measurement method, and no independent explanation for the reported appearance or disappearance. Its evidentiary value is limited to documenting how the FBI Lab represented the eyewitness accounts in a release asset.
Witness Claims Made Visual
The sketch matters because it is the release's visual anchor for a contemporary FBI UAP report: it translates witness descriptions into a specific scale, shape, color, and setting without resolving what the witnesses saw. That makes the record useful for comparing release metadata with any accompanying FBI 302 material, while keeping the sketch separate from a factual determination about the object's nature.