{"type":"documents","slug":"2026-pursue-release-03-032-dow-uap-d081-narrative-statement-3-western-united-states-event-2023","title":"DOW-UAP-D081 Narrative Statement 3 Western United States Event 2023","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-03-032-dow-uap-d081-narrative-statement-3-western-united-states-event-2023","description":"First-hand narrative from a U.S. federal law enforcement special agent who reported observing UAP over two days in October 2023 in the western United States.","date":"2023-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Testimony"],"updated":"2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z","disclosureRating":6,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"DOW-UAP-D081 is a Department of War memorandum, signed by Jon T. Kosloski, Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), presenting the first-hand narrative of Witness 3, a U.S. federal law enforcement special agent. The memorandum was issued on 2 June 2026 and released publicly as part of PURSUE Release 03 on June 12, 2026. It documents UAP observations made over two days in October 2023 in the western United States, with the specific location withheld for operational security reasons. [^1][^2][^3]\n\n<PDF src=\"https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/DoW-UAP-D081_Narrative-3_Western-US-Event.pdf\" />\n\n## Provenance and Chain of Custody\n\nThe document originates from the Office of the Under Secretary of War, 5000 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-5000, Intelligence and Security directorate. It carries the VIRIN 260508-D-D0360-1052 and references the Department of War UAP landing page. The two-page memorandum was prepared by AARO and signed by Director Jon T. Kosloski, indicating the witness account was formally received and entered into the AARO case file as official testimony. No classification markings appear; the document is unclassified in full.\n\nWitness 3 is identified only as a U.S. federal law enforcement special agent. The witness submitted a free-form narrative account at AARO's request. A partner agent accompanied Witness 3 during both observed events, providing independent corroboration noted within the account itself. DOW-UAP-D081 sits alongside other witness narratives from the same Western United States event, indicating it is one component of a multi-witness AARO case file. No sensor data, radar returns, or photographic evidence are attached to this memorandum.\n\n## What the Document Contains\n\nThe memorandum reproduces the witness's narrative across two discrete observation episodes, both occurring in mid-October 2023 in the western United States, and both involving orange and red orbs approaching from the east. The account is descriptive and precise about what was seen while being candid about the limits of what the witness could determine, particularly regarding object size and distance. The witness demonstrates awareness of his observational limitations throughout.\n\n## First Observation: Orange Orb and Red Orb Expulsion\n\nThe first event took place at approximately 1900 hours under clear skies. Witness 3 and the partner agent were outdoors conducting work-related activities and looking east when a large orange orb approached from that direction. The witness explicitly acknowledged an inability to determine the orb's absolute size due to unknown distance.\n\nThe orb exhibited a distinctive color-cycling behavior: it alternated between appearing clear (transparent) and orange in regular cycles of roughly two to three seconds each. When orange, its outline was sharply defined; when clear, the outline remained faintly visible despite the transparency. The orb traversed approximately 20 degrees of sky in three to five seconds.\n\nWhen the orb reached approximately 45 degrees of elevation, it expelled three smaller red orbs. The witness described the expulsion as appearing \"mechanical\" rather than explosive or gradual. The three red orbs then moved south in a straight line, spaced approximately one second apart, tracking at the same 45-degree elevation angle toward the horizon. The witness compared the size relationship to \"grapes being expelled from a basketball.\"\n\nNo sound was associated with either the orange orb or the expelled red orbs. No exhaust trails or propulsion signatures were observed. The partner agent independently asked \"are you seeing this?\" during the observation, confirming simultaneous independent observation by both law enforcement agents. The witness did not observe the orange orb again after the expulsion. The entire event lasted approximately 30 to 45 seconds.\n\n## Second Observation: Formation, Airfield, and Ground Vehicle\n\nThe second event occurred either the same night or the following night at approximately 2000 to 2030 hours, near full darkness, at a different location in the western United States situated near an airfield and a ridgeline. Both agents used night-vision goggles (NVGs).\n\nWitness 3 observed four red lights moving from north to south, covering roughly 90 degrees of sky in five to ten seconds before stopping abruptly. The lights then hovered in a formation that the witness described as appearing to occupy \"a square over each corner of the airfield.\" While the red lights held that formation, two orange orbs appeared approaching from the east -- the same cardinal direction as in the first observation -- and positioned themselves near the slope of a west-facing ridgeline. The witness was uncertain whether these orange orbs expelled red orbs in the same manner as in the first event.\n\nBelow the witness's elevated position, a vehicle on an upward-sloping road began flashing its headlights at a slow, methodical tempo, with approximately two to three seconds between each on-off cycle. Witness 3 interpreted this behavior as indicating the vehicle was involved with the aerial activity. The two law enforcement agents responded by driving down the hill with their own lights off, navigating by NVG. The vehicle initially appeared stationary but maintained approximately 100 yards of distance as the agents approached, appearing to respond to their movement.\n\nThe vehicle then appeared to \"seemingly floated off the road to the south, across rough terrain.\" The witness noted that no roads were accessible to a conventional vehicle in that direction. A subsequent search of the area found no tire tracks. The vehicle was last seen in brush with a single light visible; that light faded and the vehicle was no longer visible. No sound was associated with any aerial or ground phenomena during this event.\n\nThe single light on the vehicle faded at approximately the same time the red and orange orbs in the sky disappeared. The agents had shifted attention to the vehicle pursuit and did not observe the final disposition of the aerial phenomena before they disappeared. The entire second event lasted approximately two to three minutes.\n\n## Key Reported Characteristics\n\nSeveral features of the account stand out as specifically and precisely described.\n\n**Color cycling:** The orange orb's alternation between transparent and orange in regular two-to-three-second cycles is an unusual and specific characteristic not commonly associated with known aircraft or meteorological phenomena.\n\n**Mechanical expulsion:** The deliberate, spaced release of three smaller red orbs is described as appearing controlled rather than accidental or ballistic.\n\n**Consistent direction of origin:** Orange orbs appeared from the east in both separate observations, suggesting either a repeated flight path or a consistent point of origin across the two events.\n\n**Rapid formation movement:** The four red lights covering 90 degrees in five to ten seconds and then stopping precisely over the corners of an airfield suggests coordinated, controlled behavior not characteristic of conventional aircraft.\n\n**Apparent ground coordination:** The vehicle's flashing-light behavior, its apparent response to the agents' approach, its movement across terrain without accessible roads, and the absence of tire tracks are each independently anomalous. Their temporal correlation with the simultaneous disappearance of the aerial phenomena adds further complexity to the account.\n\n**Absence of conventional signatures:** No sound, exhaust, or propulsion effects were reported across either observation.\n\n## What The Record Supports\n\nThis document establishes that a U.S. federal law enforcement special agent formally submitted, at AARO's request, a detailed first-hand account of two separate UAP observation episodes in October 2023 in the western United States. A partner agent present during both events independently confirmed observations in real time.\n\nThe document does not identify or classify the observed objects or the ground vehicle. It contains no sensor data, radar contacts, imagery, or investigative conclusions. No AARO findings or analysis linked to this case file appear within this release. The phenomena remain unresolved and unidentified.\n\nThe account does not establish the nature, origin, or capability of the observed objects. It establishes what a trained federal law enforcement observer -- one who explicitly acknowledged his own observational limitations throughout -- reported to AARO through formal channels. The combination of aerial and apparent ground-based anomalous activity, the temporal correlation between the vehicle's light extinguishing and the aerial phenomena disappearing simultaneously, and the absence of tire tracks in terrain the vehicle apparently traversed are details that fall outside conventional explanations. The document provides no basis for any definitive conclusion about what was observed.\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Department of War PURSUE page](https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release)\n[^2]: [Department of War PURSUE data file (uap-data.csv)](https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-data.csv)\n[^3]: [DOW-UAP-D081, Narrative Statement 3, Western United States Event, 2023 remote release asset](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/DoW-UAP-D081_Narrative-3_Western-US-Event.pdf)","readingTime":"7 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-03-032-dow-uap-d081-narrative-statement-3-western-united-states-event-2023","title":"DOW-UAP-D081 Narrative Statement 3 Western United States Event 2023","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2026-pursue-release-03-032-dow-uap-d081-narrative-statement-3-western-united-states-event-2023","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}