A series of UFO sightings by federal officials in the western US are detailed in striking illustrations made public by the War Department Friday.

The artist renderings of the encounters “near a sensitive national security site” in October 2023 were released as part of the third drop of UFO files by the Trump administration.

A June 5 summary report by the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) describes what the agents saw as “orbs launching other orbs,” including “a luminous orange ‘mother orb’ appear[ing] to produce smaller red ‘orbs,’ one after another, multiple times over a period of several hours.

“Reporters described the orange ‘mother orbs’ as appearing for one or two seconds, releasing a cluster of two to four red ‘orbs,’ and subsequently disappearing,” the summary added. “The reporters characterized the behavior of the red ‘orbs’ as anomalous, describing varied kinematic profiles including seemingly coordinated horizontal motion and apparent changes in altitude.”

The summary assessed that what the agent saw was “sufficiently anomalous to warrant continued investigation.”