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Digital Rendering, Narrative Statement 1-1, Western United States Event, 2023
FBI-UAP-D014 · Release 03 (6/12)
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This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) over a period of two days in October 2023. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by a federal law enforcement special agent, as described in DOW-UAP-D079. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prepared this digital rendering at the request of the Department of War in 2026.
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1_967, as follows:
He is eleven years of age.
Al approximately 8:30
PM he heard a "weird" noise and looked out the window of
his resid,ence and saw a "flash of light going north in the
skyo"
He could furnish no additional information but claimed
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landed briefly on the ground (discharging the occup1nt, who stroll
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returned to the object), and which was seen by at /east three civi ian observers
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files covering the period January 1, 1954 through December 3, 1954; and, if so,
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observer, Chicago resident Mrs. Lelah H.
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of April 8, 1954?
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219 Soutb Dearborn Street:
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I have received your letter dated Septe~ber 30·,.
1914, regar.ding UFO .sightings.
I am sorry to advise you
·\th~t the Federal Bureau. of Investigation (FBI) has ·no
.information regarding the UFO sighting you describe in
yo"r letter, and, in fact, the FBI does. not collect informa
t1Qn regarding UFO sightings in general.
As you are
prdbably aware, the FBI is the investigative arm of the
U'ni\:ted States Department of Justice, and is authorized to
.ilnvestigate only those matters .specifically delegated to
tt.~y Congress.
UFO sightings are not such matters.
In a.ddition, our files contai.o no information
regii.rding the current residence or telepho~e number of
'Mrs·...Lelah H.. Stoker, mentioned in your letter .
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RICHA· D G. HELD
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Context
This is one of 87 FBI records in the declassified archive, reported in the United States region. It was published in Release 03 (6/12).
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