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From the source: Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: October, 2023, Westen United States. This memorandum presents the first-hand narrative from Witness 3 provided to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Witness 3 was one of several United States (U.S.) federal law enforcement special agents who reported observing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) over a period of two days in October 2023 in the western United States.
UN CLASSIFIED OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF WAR 5000 DEFENSE PENTAGON WASH INGTON , DC 20301-5000 INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY 02 June 2026 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT: Nairntive from Witness 3 - Western U.S. Event References: (a) https://www.war.gov/ufo/#Western-US-Event,VIRIN: 260508-D-D0360-1 052, 08-MAY 2026. 1. Executive Sumrna1y . This memorandum presents the first-hand naiTative from Witness 3 provided to the All domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Witness 3 was one of several United States (U.S.) federal law enforcement special agents who reported observing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) over a period of two days in October 2023 in the western United States. 2. Witness Na1rntive. ill response to AARO 's request to provide a free-fo1m naiTative of the sequence of events exactly as they remember them, Witness 3 submitted the following text: "ill mid-Oct 2023, I was with agents from our office at our work location. We were out of the office conducting work related activities. Traveling and working with one other agent, at approximately 1900, roughly dusk with a cleai· sky, I was looking east when I saw a large orange orb in the sky seemingly coming in my direction. I recall my paitner asking, "are you seeing this?" I couldn't tell how large the orb was because I could not dete1mine how far away it was. I recall that it was alternating between cleai· and orange with maybe two or three seconds in each colored cycle. When it was orange, the outline was well defined, but when it was clear, it did not seem to disappeai· as I vaguely recall still being able to see an outline of the orb although it was cleai·. ill tenns of speed, I'd estimate the orb moved approximately 20 degrees in the sky in about three to five seconds. When the orb was at approximately 45 degrees (halfway between the horizon and directly overhead), it expelled three smaller red orbs. The expulsion appeared to be mechanical. The red orbs then moved to the south in a straight line spaced about one second apart, also at 45 degrees (from directly overhead to the horizon) until I could no longer see them. I did not pay attention to what the orange orb was doing after it released the red orbs. However, I don 't recall seeing it any longer. I do not recall any sound associated with what I saw. Also, there were no exhaust trails coming from either the orange or the red orbs. Although I could not tell how lai·ge the orange orb was, the red orbs were a lot smaller than the orange orb. Compai·atively, I' d say the red orbs were like grapes being expelled from a basketball. The time fraine for this explanation was maybe 30-45 seconds. ill a second occunence, also in mid-Oct 2023, either the same night or the next night, I was out with my paitner again but at a different location. It was nearing full darkness, so I'd say the time was probably ~2000-2030 and the sky was cleai·. I was using NVGs to scan the sky when I saw 1 UNCLASSIFIED
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