Transparent Kite: a flashlight beam blocked by something invisible
Illustrations
AI-generated illustration — not actual footage or evidence; an interpretive depiction based on the documented account
About 30 minutes after the Dark Kite event, roughly 100 m away, USPER5 and USPER6 saw a similarly kite-shaped object hovering ~6 m off the ground, canted lower-right to upper-left. Through NVGs USPER5 "could vaguely see a bright star or two in the distance through the object", suggesting partial transparency. After losing visual contact, USPER5 swept a flashlight; "at one point my beam went from shining far into the distance to stopping about 50 yards away on nothing in particular". Moving the light off that spot allowed the beam to project normally again.
Key quotes
“"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."
From western-us-events-2026-05 page 4
“"Could vaguely see a bright star or two in the distance through the object, though somewhat more faint."
From western-us-events-2026-05 page 4
From the source documents
Signal-bearing sentences pulled directly from the PDF text layers of the related records — click a document name to jump to its full brief.
Dusk (on two separate days) • Three teams of two federal law enforcement special agents each (USPER1 through USPER6) independently describe seeing orange “orbs” in the sky emit/launch smaller red “orbs” in groups of two to four, with three being the general consensus
“Large, Fiery Orb” • Location
Pre-dawn hours • Two federal law enforcement special agents (USPER5 and USPER6) observed what is initially thought to be a car traveling along a road in a restricted zone
Related media
Similar cases
Scored on agency / year proximity / region / tag overlap — same agency +3, near year +4, same region +2, shared tag ×2.
Dark Kite: A horizontal thin line under NVGs
Orbs Launching Orbs: orange motherships releasing red orbs
Large Fiery Orb: "Like the Eye of Sauron"
USPER 2025: Helicopter encounter with coordinated orb formations
Related documents
Western US Event Slides (May 8, 2026)
western_us_event_slides_5.08.2026.pdf