Note: Outline was not

“Transparent Kite”                                                                                            definitive, but location
                                                                                                              of lights stayed in exact
                                                                                                              formation.
•   Location: Western U.S.
•   Time of Day: Pre-dawn hours

•   About 30 minutes after the “Dark Kite” sighting, federal law enforcement special agents
    (USPER5 and USPER6) returned to the same general area with another colleague
    (USPER7) in response to a report of another unauthorized object in the area. Within a few
    hundred meters of the “Dark Kite” sighting, two of the team members (USPER5 and
    USPER6) observed a kite-shaped object with a lighting pattern similar to the object seen
    previously. This object is about 6 meters off the ground, is canted at an angle from lower
    right to upper left (see Image 2), and appeared to be floating slowly with the wind.
    USPER5 was using NVGs when viewing the object and USPER6 used the bare eye.
    USPER7 did not see the object. USPER5 stated that in the night vision goggles, they could
    “vaguely see a bright star or two in the distance through the object, though somewhat
    more faint,” leading them to believe the object was somewhat transparent. After losing
    sight of the object, USPER5 tried using a spotlight to find it again. The witness noted that
    when shining the light around, “at one point my beam went from shining far into the            Image 2: Recreation of drawing
    distance to stopping about 50 yards away on nothing in particular, it just was not             provided by USPER6 of object
                                                                                                   seen with the bare eye.
    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 was unable to reacquire sight of the object.