Narrative Statement 1, Western United States Event, 2023

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While it was lit, it appeared three red lights flew out of and away from it. They seemed evenly
spaced apart and moved pretty fast, quickly disappearing from sight. At the same time the
orange light lit up, there appeared to be a flash from over the horizon to the left. The flash lit up
the sky pretty well, though very briefly. About twenty minutes later the experience repeated
except this time the orange ball appeared to the front and slightly to the left this time. This time
however, the red lights appeared to leave in a different pattern as one flew straight out, one
appeared to fly up horizontally and another flew down horizontally, appearing to fly away in a
vertical alignment of three lights. A flash accompanied this event as well and all three sightings
appeared to be similar though at different distances. Several hours later we departed from where
we were at to drive to another location in preparation for work the next day.
It took several hours of driving, and as we were driving hours later still, we observed a car
driving ahead of us on the road, we were gaining on the car and as we got closer I noticed it
appeared one taillight cover was broken because one taillight was red and one was white. They
were also different because one was round and one was square. Another vehicle approached
from the opposite direction and as it was about to pass the vehicle in front of us, the car changed
direction and moved off the road to the right. The oncoming vehicle continued driving and
passed us, almost like it did not even see the vehicle move of the road as it passed. It did not
bounce or move with the terrain, but seemed to hover. It did not kick up any dust either. It
stopped on the road next to it, and the lights appeared to be in the same position facing us even
though we were in a different direction from it. When we stopped the lights turned off and I
could see a darker object moving up and toward behind us as it flew away. When we stopped we
already had the windows rolled down and I did not notice any sound at any point. It reminded
me of a Toyota Prius for some reason. It was hard to identify the exact shape though. The
hillside was about 200 meters away, and when it stopped it was less than halfway to the base of
the hillside. We started looking around the area and approximately an hour or two later as we
were stopped we observed some dust and thick spider web looking material floating in-front of
us. We then saw what looked like the same object floating in a more vertical orientation floating
with the dust. It was still at an off angle. I could see where the spots were for the two lights and
one being round and the other square. The lights were not on though. The object itself was still
hard to define its shape and borders visually. It was in the air about 15-20 feet up and as it
floated past I could see a star through the object, as well as the crest of the hill and some
vegetation. It was almost like looking at something through water where it was not completely
clear.
We eventually continued to our destination and I did not have any other contact or sightings of
those objects of that night that I observed.”
Jon T. Kosloski
Director, AARO
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