FBI Drone-Pilot 'Linear Object'

Provisional — pending primary verification

Stated date

2023-09

Location

United States

Agency

FBI

Official status

unresolved

Substantiated

Evidence strength

How solid the official record is — source authority, corroboration, evidence quality, provenance, and disposition.

Unresolved

Anomaly level

How far officials are from explaining it. Unexplained means officials haven’t explained it — never that it is extraterrestrial.

FBI interview (Sept 2023): drone pilot reported a linear object with light bright enough to show bands within it, visible 5-10 seconds before vanishing; unresolved.

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