Federal Law Enforcement · Western U.S.

Orbs Launching Orbs

A single luminous mother-orb hovers low over the desert at dusk. Then it ejects two more.

Report

A federal officer on routine patrol observed a large orange luminous orb stationary several hundred feet above the basin. As he watched, two smaller red orbs separated from beneath the larger one and traveled laterally outward at high speed.

There was no sound. No exhaust signature. The objects did not respond to terrain, wind, or visible propulsion.

“It launched two more out of itself, and they took off.”

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Source files

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Western U.S. Federal Employee UFO Reports

Western US Event

This document is a summary of statements by seven US PERSONs employed by the federal government who separately reported observing several unidentified anomalous phenomena in the western United States over the course of two days in 2023. The summary notes the US PERSONS reported four distinct categories of experiences, including observing “orbs launching other orbs” at a distance, observing a large stationary glowing orb at close estimated range, pursuing a large phenomenon near the ground, and observing a large, seemingly transparent phenomenon, reported to being akin to a “translucent kite.” Although there is no technical data directly associated with this report, contextual factors — such as these events sharing features with others reported to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the reporters’ credibility, and the potentially anomalous nature of the events themselves — combine to make this report among the most compelling within AARO’s current holdings.