Narrative Statement 5, Western United States Event, 2023

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5.1. ■■ October 2023, looking at google maps of location, SA and I believe this orange
light was at coordinates ■■■■■■
6. We could not travel much farther in the vehicle, parked, and continued on foot around 1910.
7. Around 1918 we saw a large red orb at a further distance, facing North and slightly West, past
the peak of . I am certain I saw two red, smaller orbs release from the larger one going
west, towards . One released at a steady speed and horizontally. I also saw another small red orb
go up, but it may have had a slight angle. This orb was fainter, than the horizontal one
identified. They were simultaneously released, moving away from the larger orb. The larger orb
did not move during this time, and all lights were gone from every orb in about 10 seconds.
Either while the lights were on, or shortly after they were out of sight, we saw a white flash of
light in the sky to the West.
8. We continued to hike west up the road and saw the large orb again, at 1937, but to our left - in
front of . I don't recall if this had any smaller released, and the large orb lasted about
10 seconds again. There was a similar white flash of light in the sky more southwest.
9. Approximately 3 miles from where we parked the vehicle, we set up a camera in hopes to
catch photos if anything returned to sight.
9.1. There was intermittent radio, but when we had radio, we could hear other teams, but after
reconvening on ■■ October, found out that other teams could not hear us when we were
responding.
10. We had heard the other teams leave around 2330, and started to pack our gear to hike back to
the vehicle.
■■ October 2023
1. We made it to our vehicle around 0130. We made our way down the mountain and got turned
around in the wildlife area on our way out. We made it back to Highway ■ about 0330 and to
the-gate about 0415.
2. We were driving around- lake, headed towards- base. Around 0430, I notice two
lights in the distance about 2-3ft above the ground. The lights stayed on the far side of the road,
but directly over the pavement. One was white and square, the second was round and red. The
red light was diagonally to the left above the white lite. I watched it and wondered if someone
decided to take a bike ride.
3. Another vehicle started approaching from the opposite traffic side as we were approaching the
red and white light pair. I started to notice the pair drifting into the sand, off the side of the
road. I pointed out to SA■■■ I that the lights seemed odd and asked if he could see it. We
were quickly approaching the lights and started to slow down, maybe 100 ft or so in front of us.
The lights made it hard to see what would have been displaying the lights themselves. It
appeared that the lights may have been directly facing us.
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