DOW-UAP-D080, Narrative Statement 2, Western United States Event, 2023

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OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF WAR 5000 DEFENSE PENTAGON AND SECURITY MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT: Nairntive from Witness 2 -Western U.S. Event This memorandum presents the first-hand naiTative from Witness 2 provided to the All­ domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Witness 2 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. ill response to AARO 's request to provide a free-fo1m naiTative of the sequence of events exactly as they remember them, Witness 2 submitted the following text: ill October 2023, my paitner and I were tasked to survey an area for individuals launching drones. My paitner and I were positioned in a valley, with mountain ranges to the west and east and more distant ranges to the north; we had teams positioned throughout the ai·ea as well. The weather was clear; we sat [a nd] watched the sunset as dusk trnnsitioned into darkness. At degrees above the n01thern/no1theastern horizon. Originally, the light was not dissimilar to that of a luminescent planet obse1ved in the night sky but grew slowly brighter. The bright orb-like light had a smaller red orb-like light within it. As the bright orb-like light grew lai·ger, it expelled three or four red lights from it. The red lights accelerated instantly and maneuvered with perfect, smooth coordination into a horizontal fonnation. The red lights were approximately 1/15 the size of the orb-like light. The bright orb-like light did not appear to be an aitificial neon glow, but rather a bright natural light with a slight halo effect. The red lights were less luminescent and appeai·ed to be more like artificial lights (e.g., taillights). Following the expulsion of the smaller red lights, the bright orb-like light dimmed and faded from sight. From approximately 1900 hours to approximately 1930 hours, I witnessed the process repeat approximately five times across the n01thern, northeastern, and eastern horizon. Our teams confnmed they obse1ved the same objects. The last grouping of red lights moved in a horizonal pattern to the southern horizon where they remained the rest of the evening. The three red lights were all aligned and remained equally spaced. From approximately 1930 hours until approximately 2300 hours, the red lights hovered above the southern horizon. The red lights sometime dipped below the horizon, out of sight but consistently rose back up. At

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approximately 2300 hours we departed the area. There were no acoustics, interreference or physiological effects experienced during the incident. The objects appeared to move with purpose in a coordinated fashion, but it did not appear to be a defensive countermeasure. It looked like a mix of mechanical deployment and biological division; it appeared too smooth and agile to be mechanical, but too structured/coordinated to be a biological division. To offer an obscure yet similar description, I find the characterization of portals oddly comparable to the event I witnessed. The bright orb-like light was small, grew larger, appeared to project objects out of it, and then it dimmed until it was no longer visible; not dissimilar to the opening and closing of a portal through which objects travel and deploy forward. I am not saying or suggesting that was what we observed but rather offering that as a In October 2023, my partner and I were tasked to survey an area for individuals launching drones. My partner and I drove northwest on a rural highway and turned right onto a dirt road heading north/northeast up a valley toward a mountain range. We drove for approximately 10 miles before parking a small hill at approximately 1800 hours. The weather was clear; we sat [and] watched the sunset as dusk transitioned into darkness. At approximately 1845 hours, I observed two circular orb-like lights appearing to be headlights of a vehicle to the south approximately five to seven miles away. The headlights sat still in the valley while we sat and continued to observe the area. At approximately 1900 hours, I observed a row of red lights appearing to hover approximately 15 degrees above the southern horizon (I do not recall how the lights entered the area). The lights were consistent with the glow of a taillight and appeared to be arranged in a triangular formation or attached to unobservable vehicle of some sort; they appeared to cover the area of a football field, hovering over a significant portion of the horizon. The object floated with an impossible, eerie stillness. At that same time, I observed the vehicle to the south of our location flash its lights toward us; the flashing appeared to be consistent with a white pulse. Soon after, what appeared to be headlights of a second vehicle approximately one mile east of the first vehicle, still approximately five to seven miles from our location. The second vehicle flashed their lights in the same manner as the first vehicle. The two vehicles appeared to hover within, approximately, a six-mile by six-mile box between the southern tips mountains ranges surrounding the valley. While the two vehicles moved in between the mountain ranges, the row of red lights remained in place, appearing to still hover above the southern horizon. At approximately 1915 hours, one of the vehicles appeared to move north toward our location. We decided to drive toward the objects. One set of lights turned off but the other remained in view. We drove with our headlights off only utilizing night vision equipment; at one point reaching approximately 70 miles per hour. At some point while driving toward it, the headlights morphed into one bright white/orange orb-like light with a halo-like glow. Around two or three miles north of the original highway we exited from, we appeared to be gaining on the object; at approximately 50 yards away we thought were going to encounter it. The object then accelerated instantly to the south, traveling at least one mile south in less than a