UAP Characteristics Field Guide

This cover plate is an interpretive guide visual, not source evidence. It turns the recurring transcript clusters into a reader map: morphology, light/state change, motion, multiplicity, controls, and upgrade paths. The source files below remain the evidence.

This guide is built from transcript review across Release 3, with cross-release support where the same feature family is already prominent in the archive. Its closest local companions are C69 - High-Profile UAP Events and the National Security Apparatus, C58 - D077 Western US Event Analysis Update Companion, C51 - FBI Domestic Orb and Witness Chain, C52 - NASA Gemini and Astronaut Phenomena Control Layer, C63 - CIA German Scientist Flying Disc Technical Claim Map, and C68 - Australian JIO UFO Intelligence Assessment.

DOW-UAP-D077 - Western U.S. Event Analysis Update for the official unresolved "orbs launching orbs" case, reported silence, repeated orange/red orb behavior, flare controls, Blue Force deconfliction, Red Force assessment, environmental controls, and the "unrecognized technology" pending lane. - DoW-UAP-D079 - Narrative 1, Western U.S. Event for witness language around a glowing orange ball, red lights leaving in multiple patterns, silence, transparent or water-like object structure, dust or web-like material, and shape ambiguity. - CIA-UAP-017 - Placement on High Alert Due to Perceived Aggressive Foreign Posturing for a classified airport-area report describing a high-altitude hovering object, possible radar/optical observation, beams, hollow-center disc-like shape, rotating underside lights, color shift, rapid ascent, and high-alert consequence. - FBI-UAP-D001 - Colorado Springs FD-302, FBI-UAP-D002, FBI-UAP-D003, and ICA-UAP-D001 - Colorado Springs Analysis for the bean/oval stationary object description and the low-confidence snow/cloud backscatter control. - CIA-UAP-006 - Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft for the Baku/Tiflis triangular-object launch narrative: equilateral triangle, three lights, spiraling ascent, searchlight tracking, and secrecy cue when blinds were reportedly drawn. - CIA-UAP-005 - German Scientists Article on Flying Discs for a historical technical explanation lane that treats luminous discs/rings as possibly related to rotating machinery, turbines, Flettner rotors, boundary-layer theory, and captured German/Soviet technology speculation. - CIA-UAP-002 - Scientific Advisory Panel Report for the control discipline: formations, blinking lights, hovering, films, balloon/seagull/radar coverage checks, and the warning that weak reports should not outrun documentation.

The transcript corpus does not produce one clean object type. It produces recurring descriptive buckets. That is more useful for a guide because each bucket tells the reader what to verify next.