AARO / Department of War report
A 2026 Department of War memorandum details a UAP sighting by federal law enforcement agents in the western U.S. in October 2023. The report, submitted to AARO, describes orbs, lights, and a faint formation, with diagrams.
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Image 1: Diagram showing a red circular light and a white square light connected by lines.
Image 2: Diagram showing a formation of faint lights in a pointed shape.
Image 3: Diagram showing a formation of faint lights in a pointed shape, at a different angle from Image 2.
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UNCLASSIFIED OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF WAR 5000 DEFENSE PENTAGON WASHINGTON, DC 20301-5000 INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY 02 JUNE 2026 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT: Narrative from Witness 5 - Western U.S. Event References: (a) https://www.war.gov/ufo/#Western-US-Event,VI…
UNCLASSIFIED 5.1. [REDACTED] October 2023, looking at google maps of location, SA and I believe this orange light was at coordinates [REDACTED] 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…
UNCLASSIFIED 4. As we were slowing our vehicle, and the opposite traffic vehicle quickly approached, the red and white light pair hovered, with zero resistance, or change in height, over the bushes to the right at about 15-00 mph. The light pair stopped just as we stopped our veh…
UNCLASSIFIED 13. We noted odd scrapes in the ground around a certain plant. This appeared to show that the particular plant was susceptible to wind, but it was not windy the night before and the dirt movement looked very sharp and very fresh. The sharp cut in the dirt was symmetr…
UNCLASSIFIED Image 3 [Image: A triangular/kite-shaped diagram with several circular markers] Jon T. Kosloski Director, AARO 5 UNCLASSIFIED