Notional Map: Western United States Event

This single page is an illustration, not evidence. It was made to show, in one overhead view, the four incidents that federal law enforcement special agents reported near a sensitive site in the western United States in October 2023. The page says outright that all its images were generated with the military’s generative-AI tool, that the phenomena are drawn larger than life, and that distances and locations are notional.

The four incidents as labeled

The first panel, only partly legible in the text layer, concerns the orange orbs at the center of the case. The second describes a large “fiery orb” seen against a ridgeline at roughly 1,000 yards. The third, “Dark Kite,” is a thin dark kite-shaped object with one red and one white light at close range, and the fourth, “Translucent Kite,” a see-through kite shape, also close. The map dates the incidents to “several days” in October 2023, while AARO’s memo speaks of two days.

Where to read the details

The kite labels appear to correspond to the witness accounts of a dark object with mismatched lights that left the road and, later, a translucent shape drifting with dust — told by Witness 1 and Witness 5. AARO’s analysis of the case is DOW-UAP-D077.