Narrative Statement 2, Western United States Event, 2023

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road we were driving on curved to the left where the orb-like-disc landed. As we neared it, what
appeared to be a semi-truck came around the corner and was driving right toward us. If I recall
correctly, at that moment we were not sure if this was the same object that had transitioned into a
semi-truck coming at us or if this was an actual vehicle on the road. In the video footage, I
believe we say something about thinking it was going to hit us. The apparent semi-truck passed
us at a high rate of speed and appeared to continue down the highway eastward. Having focused
our attention back to the side of the road, we saw that the orb-like-disc was no longer there.
There were no acoustics, interreference or physiological effects experienced during the incident.
The object appeared highly reactive to our interaction with it. It sat still on the road and did not
start moving until we pulled onto the road and began driving toward it. The object appeared to
mimic a car (my best example is the flying car from the Harry Potter book series, if it had a
single center headlight); the mimicking felt specific and off-putting.  Other vehicles passed
heading east and no one appeared to react to the object we were seeing (i.e., no vehicles pulled
over or stopped abruptly). The sudden transition/appearance of the object felt very purposeful. I
do not know if the semi-truck that came around the corner had anything to do with the object
disappearing, but it felt similar to when we approached the other object on the dirt road, and it
appeared to move far away instantly as soon as we thought we were going to encounter it. It felt
like it was drawing us in and had control to disappear instantly. The video footage captures
some of it, but more valuable is the audio of our reactions.
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