A Federal Agent Compared a UFO to “the Eye of Sauron” in the Pentagon’s New UAP Report

The Department of War released a major batch of declassified UAP files today on war.gov/UFO. Buried in the dump is a 4-page slide deck dated 5.08.2026, the same day as the release. The deck appears to have been prepared specifically for the unsealing.

Titled “Western US Event,” it walks through 4 distinct UAP sightings reported in 2023 by federal law enforcement special agents identified as USPER1 through USPER7. Each slide describes a different encounter, and most of them involve the same 2 agents (USPER5 and USPER6). Measurements from the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) appear in footnotes on slides 2 and 3.

Here’s what’s inside.

“Orbs Launching Orbs”

The first slide describes a series of dusk sightings over a 2-day period. Three teams of 2 federal law enforcement special agents (USPER1 through USPER6) independently reported watching orange “orbs” appear in the sky and emit smaller red orbs in groups of 2 to 4, with 3 being the typical count.

According to the deck, this happened at least 5 times. Each time, the orange orb would appear, launch the red orbs, and disappear. The orange orb was only visible for 1 or 2 seconds. The red orbs typically moved horizontally away from the orange “mother” orb, but in some cases one would head up at an angle, and another witness reported seeing red orbs “swoop down” after launch.

Because the events were spread across multiple teams, locations, and vantage points, the deck states it isn’t known whether one orange “mother” orb was responsible for all the launches or whether multiple orange orbs were operating in sequence.

“Large, Fiery Orb”

Slide 2 covers a single dusk sighting by USPER5 and USPER6. The 2 agents watched a glowing orange orb perched close to a rock pinnacle. They estimated it was about 500 to 600 meters away and similar in size to a small helicopter cockpit. AARO later assessed the actual distance at about 1050 meters and the diameter at 12 to 18 meters.

The agents couldn’t see any structure other than the glowing orb itself. USPER6 noted that it appeared to have “a small spindle or something connecting it from underneath to the rock formation.” The object made no noticeable sound.

The witnesses described the object in the deck this way:

“Similar to the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings, except without the pupil, or maybe an orange Storm Electrify bowling ball.”

USPER6 added that the object “seemed to be hovering with zero resistance or movement, or to be suspended.” The sighting lasted about a minute.

The slide includes an artist rendering of the orb in the upper-right corner.

“Dark Kite”

Slide 3 jumps to pre-dawn hours. USPER5 and USPER6 were on patrol in a restricted zone when they spotted what looked like a car traveling along a road. The “car” had 2 lights about 2 to 3 feet off the ground, 1 red and 1 white.

The agents pursued the vehicle. As they got within a few hundred feet of it, the object suddenly moved off the road and into the desert. It moved laterally at an estimated 15 to 20 mph without rotating, maintaining its orientation toward the agents the whole time. It didn’t change height. The deck notes the object appeared to move with “zero resistance.”

The object stopped about 100 meters off the side of the road and turned off its lights. From behind, USPER6 described what was left as a “thin line.” USPER5 said it “almost looked like an ill defined, dark kite shape that had some rounded width to the sides.”

USPER6 then put on night vision goggles. They saw the object for “a split second in the NVGs before the light turned off.” Once the lights were off, a “very thin line” was all that remained, about 4 feet wide, positioned horizontally to the ground. The object began moving again at 15 to 20 mph, appearing to “move up in height” while remaining a flat line. The agent lost sight after a few seconds.

A footnote on the slide notes that in later discussions with AARO, the object was described as triangular.

“Transparent Kite”

About 30 minutes after the Dark Kite encounter, USPER5 and USPER6 returned to the same general area with a colleague identified as USPER7. They were responding to a report of another unauthorized object.

Within a few hundred meters of the original Dark Kite sighting, USPER5 and USPER6 saw a kite-shaped object with a similar lighting pattern to what they’d seen earlier. This one was about 6 meters off the ground, canted at an angle from lower right to upper left, and appeared to be floating slowly with the wind. USPER7 didn’t see it.

USPER5 used night vision to look at the object. According to the deck, USPER5 stated that in the goggles, they could “vaguely see a bright star or two in the distance through the object, though somewhat more faint.” That observation led the agents to believe the object was somewhat transparent.

After they lost sight of it, USPER5 used a spotlight to try to find it again. The deck quotes the agent’s account directly:

“At one point my beam went from shining far into the distance to stopping about 50 yards away on nothing in particular, it just was not projecting into the distance and then it was. When the witness pointed the light at the spot where the light had appeared to be blocked by something, this time the light was projecting into the distance again.”

The team couldn’t reacquire the object.

What the Deck Doesn’t Include

The deck contains no photographs of the actual objects. The only visuals are 2 artist renderings (one of the orange orb, one of the kite-shaped object seen with the bare eye) and a diagram of the lights observed in the “Dark Kite” sighting. AARO’s measurements appear in footnotes but aren’t followed by any analysis or determination in the file itself. The Department of War released the document this morning as part of the first tranche of materials under the PURSUE program, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.