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 "slug": "dow-uap-d082",
 "title": "DoW-UAP-D082 Narrative-4 Western-US-Event",
 "agency": "DoW",
 "year": null,
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 "source_page": "https://wearenotalone.space/document/dow-uap-d082/",
 "original_file": "https://wearenotalone.space/Season 03/release_03_documents/DoW-UAP-D082_Narrative-4_Western-US-Event.pdf",
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   "text": "UNCLASSIFIED\nOFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF WAR\n5000 DEFENSE PENTAGON\nWASH INGTON, DC 20301-5000\nINTELLIGENCE\nAND SECURITY\n02 June 2026\nMEMORANDUM FOR RECORD\nSUBJECT: Nairntive from Witness 4 - Western U.S. Event\nReferences: (a) https://www.war.gov/ufo/#Western-US-Event,VIRIN: 260508-D-D0360-1052,\n08-MAY 2026.\n1. Executive Sumrna1y.\nThis memorandum presents the first-hand naiTative from Witness 4 provided to the All­\ndomain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Witness 4 was one ofseveral United States (U.S.)\nfederal law enforcement special agents who reported observing unidentified anomalous\nphenomena (UAP) over a period of two days in October 2023 in the western United States.\n2. Witness Na1rntive.\nfu response to AARO's request to provide a free-fo1m naiTative of the sequence of events\nexactly as they remember them, Witness 4 submitted the following text:\n\"Sometime in October 2023, just after sunset (7PM), I saw a bright ball of light like a shooting\nstai· beam across and over a hillside. The light was approximately 1-2k above ground level, was\norange/yellow and white in color and appeai·ed for about a second or two. I was approximately\nless than a quaiter ofa mile from the hillside, and the ball of light seem ve1y close to me as if it\nwas a shooting star coming towai·ds the hillside, towai·d and not away from me. The colors of\nthe light went from amber to orange, slightly yellow and white in that order. No other lights\nwere seen, nor did I hear any mechanical buzzing or anything like an aircraft at this time and\nkept driving. After about 10 minutes I saw with my naked eye multiple singulai· bright orange\nlights/orbs ofvai·ious brightness, size and distance. Using my night vision goggles (NV Gs) I\nsaw the saine lights in addition to multiple other lights. Some of the lights seen with NVG's\nwere organized in a line ofthree, evenly spaced and at various altitudes, horizontally just above\nthe skyline. Most of the lights were only visible for approx. 1-2 seconds before disappeai·ing.\nLater, I observed multiple singulai· ve1y bright orange lights that appeai·ed to shoot out smaller\norange lights as ifbeing hatched from the lai·ger ve1y bright orange light. The hatching occmTed\nmultiple times, I lost track after five occmTences. The smaller lights seemed to travel\ndownwards like a falling flai·e. Soon thereafter I saw nine lights fo1med a horizontal line just\nabove a ridgeline. The lights were static, not moving, evenly spaced apait and were visible for\n30+ seconds. Smaller lights then appeai·ed below and to the left and right ofthe line of nine\nlights. These smaller lights seemed to cluster (almost touching) in a combination ofthree. The\nlights soon disappeared only to appeai· again directly behind me. All these observations occmTed\nwithin a 2-3 hom span, nonstop.\n1\nUNCLASSIFIED"
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   "text": "UNCLASSIFIED\nThe next day between 7-9pm I saw the same light phenomenon; however, I also saw what\nappeared to be chemtrails approx. 10 finger lengths from the highest ridge point. I observed for\nmore than 10 minutes, the chemtrails were white and moved up toward the atmosphere. I did not\nsee any aircraft or lights at or near the chemtrails; I was observing from about 3k above ground\nlevel. After 10 minutes, I saw 1 chemtrail disappear and the chemtrail below it made a U turn\nand headed toward/falling towards the ground very quickly. At this time, I saw a plane in the\nsame direction (southeast) as the chemtrails. In tandem I saw a string of lights that resembled a\nStarlink deployment. Shortly thereafter, I saw what appeared to be one light source just above\nthe Southeast ridgeline. The lights seemed to produce four smaller lights which traveled\ndownward as the main light source disappeared. Three of the smaller lights seemed to form a\nhorizontal line while the fourth traveled westward and away from the line of three. The four\nlights were observed for approx. 10 minutes; no other lights were observed thereafter. Later in\nthe night while stationary in a vehicle on ground level, I watched at least one light source appear\nand disappear along a mountain (approx. 4 miles away). The light moved from the top of the\nmountain to the bottom of the mountain and at first looked like a vehicle traveling down the\nmountain; however, the light darted between the top and bottom of the mountain within seconds,\nwhich would not be feasible for a standard vehicle to do. Moreover, this was desert terrain and\nvery rough dirt roads; the light produced no dust cloud and moved steadily. I watched this light\ntraverse between mountain to mountain for approx. 30 minutes and saw a light appear from the\nbottom of the mountain disappear and then another light would be seen at the top of the\nmountain; unsure if it was the same light. At some point I saw a very bright, white light appear\njust below a ridgeline. It was steady and did not pulse or hatch smaller lights. At first, it looked\nlike a star; however, it was big, very bright and looked like it was in front of and just below a\nridgeline from my eyelevel. The ridgeline was approx. 10 mins of a drive at 60 mph if I were to\nguess. I drove towards the light and the closer I got the higher my gaze to look at it. As I was\ngetting close the light source disappeared from my field of view (right) and an equally bright\nlight appeared on my left at eye level. Again, I thought it might have been a vehicle but\ncontinued to observe my left field of view while still traveling to get closer to the ridgeline where\nI initially saw the first light. By the time I got onto a paved road both lights had disappeared.\nThe one near the ridgeline never appeared again and the one near the ground also never\nreappeared. Later in the night between 1-3am I continued to see same distant lights appear and\ndisappear within the night sky. Fixed at a specific spot in the sky these lights movements were\ndifferent than the stars beyond it. I continued to see three or more lights group together, moved\nin a horizontal line, evenly spaced together or move towards another cluster to form a shape, I\nremember seeing diamonds or hexagons. It happened for a while that I got bored looking at\nthem.\nA few days later at around the same time (after dusk) I saw lights moving horizontally just above\na ridgeline. Most appeared suddenly and traveled Northbound. Other lights were seen directly\noverhead that were either very small or very far away. The lights seemed to cluster and create\npatterns such as diamonds, triangles and/or moved in unison together.\nThe next day I saw at least four lights hovering and moving at approx. 6k above ground level.\nThe lights seemed to appear out of nowhere and moved horizontally northbound hovering\nperiodically. At approx. 400 meters away I saw an object that was slightly darker than the sky at\ndusk and lighter than the color of the terrain. There was a faint red light on the object which was\n2\nUNCLASSIFIED"
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   "text": ")\n/\nrJ\nV\nUNCLASSIFIED\nstatic and hovering in between two mountain ridges. This looked like an actual object and from\nmy vantage point it seemed to be using the terrain to stay hidden. Based on its orientation, it\nwould have come from the South. No sounds, emissions observed and no movements despite\nheavy winds at that altitude on that evening. Prior to that lights were seen skirting above the\nridgeline from south to north twice in a span of 15 minutes.\nSome months thereafter at around midnight I saw a yellow light appear at my eyeline; I was\nabout 2k above ground. This light did not move and was below the ridgeline of a hillside. There\nare buildings on that hill, so I wasn’t sure if it was manmade or not until I saw the light get\nbrighter and quickly move North to South. I watched it for approximately 10 minutes until it\nmoved behind another hillside that obstructed my view. To approximate, the light was probably\n12 minutes away from me if I was going 80 mph, so maybe 16 miles away.”\nSketch provided by Witness 4\nJon T. Kosloski\nDirector, AARO\n3\nUNCLASSIFIED"
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