DOW-UAP-D082, Narrative Statement 4, Western United States Event, 2023
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Official WAR.gov Release 03 pdf record DOW-UAP-D082: DOW-UAP-D082, Narrative Statement 4, Western United States Event, 2023. Agency: Department of War; incident context: October, 2023, Westen United States.
Document Highlights
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Short overview
This memorandum contains the first-hand narrative Witness 4 provided to AARO. Witness 4 reports a bright ball of light shortly after sunset and later multiple orange lights or orbs, some visible through night-vision goggles. The description remains a witness perception; terms such as “hatching” are descriptive imagery, not a confirmed technical explanation.
Why this is interesting
- Includes naked-eye and night-vision observations.
- Describes some lights as visible for only about 1–2 seconds.
- Reports repeated smaller lights appearing to come from larger bright lights.
- The direct text is OCR-noisy, but the central account is understandable.
Selected passages
- p. 1: The executive summary identifies a first-hand narrative from Witness 4 provided to AARO.
- p. 1: Witness 4 describes a bright ball of light like a shooting star over a hillside just after sunset.
- p. 1: The witness says NVGs revealed additional lights, including lines of three evenly spaced lights.
- p. 1: Later, the witness describes very bright orange lights that appeared to shoot out smaller orange lights.
Background
This memorandum presents the first-hand narrative from Witness 4 provided to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Witness 4 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.