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Western_US_Event

Orbs and luminous phenomenaReports of orb-form unidentified luminous objects across multiple eras.

Open on war.gov (4 pp)Text-only (Akamai blocked binary)

◆ Key facts

Theme
Orbs and luminous phenomena
Era
Historical
OCR pages
4

◆ Opening pages

**Document Metadata** * **Document title:** Western US Event * **Source file:** Western US Event.pdf * **Page:** 1 of 4 * **Agency:** Department of War * **Release date:** 5/8/26 * **Dataset description:** Incident date: 2023; Incident location: Western United States *** * **Location:** Western U.S. * **Time of Day:** Dusk (on two separate days) * Three teams of two federal law enforcement special agents each (USPER1 through USPER6) independently describe seeing orange “orbs” in the sky emit/launch smaller red “orbs” in groups of two to four, with three being the general consensus. This is stated to have occurred at least five times. Each time, the orange orb would appear, launch red orbs, then disappear. The orange orb was only visible for one or two seconds. The red orbs would generally move away from the orange “mother” orb in a horizontal path, but in a couple of instances, one red orb was stated to move “heading up at an angle,” while another witness stated sometimes the red orbs would “swoop down” after being launched from the larger orange orb. These events were witnessed by multiple teams from varying locations and vantage points over a two-day period. Due to the sequential nature of…

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◆ Why this matters

This file is one of 3 in the Orbs and luminous phenomena cluster. It is part of the historical Project Sign / Grudge / Blue Book era record. Only the OCR text is held locally — the original PDF binary is blocked from this network by Akamai. The text is verbatim from the prior Gemini/NotebookLM extraction pass.

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