FBI Composite Sketch — Southeastern U.S. Metallic Oval (April 2024)
Date
April 30, 2024
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
▐ Partially RedactedIssuing Authority
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Summary
An FBI composite sketch of the unidentified aerial object observed in the 2023 Southeastern U.S. Metallic Oval case, dated April 30, 2024 and released via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. The sketch is the most visually striking piece of evidence in the PURSUE corpus: public reporting describes a bronze-colored metallic ellipsoid 130-195 feet in length that 'materializes and disappears instantaneously' and has been observed by multiple witnesses. The composite sketch represents the FBI's formal visual characterization of the object based on witness accounts — the first publicly released FBI composite sketch of a UAP.
Significance
The FBI composite sketch is analytically unprecedented as a UAP evidence type. Law enforcement composite sketches are constructed through rigorous witness interview protocols — the result represents a consensus visual description from trained and structured reporting. The description embedded in the sketch documentation ('materializes and disappears instantaneously', 130-195 ft, bronze metallic) are among the most specific anomalous performance characteristics documented in the PURSUE corpus.