RELEASE 01 / NOID-usper-statement-redacted
USPER Statement about UAP Sighting
- File ID
- NOID-usper-statement-redacted
- Agency
- FBI
- Release
- Release 01, 8 May 2026
- Event date
- Late 2025 (read as 2025; precision: year)
- Location
- United States
- Type
- Redactions
- Yes, parts of the official copy are blacked out
- Paired files
- ODNI-UAP-D001
The official record
Official copy at war.gov
Official summary, as published
This is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a senior US intelligence official regarding his first-hand account of a UAP encounter at a US military facility. USPER relayed to FBI agents that he and other federal and state personnel conducted searches to where orbs had been previously seen. After searching the area with a helicopter, they found a “super-hot” orb hovering over the ground. The orb is reported to have travelled for 20 miles at a speed too fast for the helicopter in pursuit. An additional “swarm” of lights were seen moving in all directions. A total of four or five additional orbs were seen shortly thereafter for a short time, flaring up and then down. This pattern of four or five orbs flaring up, then down continued over the next thirty minutes across the area.
The photos linked in the "Related Media" section are connected to a set of UAP encounters on a sensitive government testing installation in the Western US in 2025. These orb-like UAP were observed at various ranges by multiple, and in some cases simultaneous, government personnel and sensors. The linked narrative is an FBI-collected account from a senior U.S. intelligence community official who witnessed the UAP with the naked eye, while accompanied by two pilots under NVGs. Other pilots in separate aircraft, and ground-based observers with night vision, also witnessed UAP during the exercise. The photos of UAP underneath the helicopter are from this same set of observations, taken through night vision devices by ground-based personnel.
Our reading
READ FIRSTA redacted SECRET//NOFORN FBI 302 timeline of a 2025 night helicopter search near a sensitive test installation, told by a senior intelligence official riding with NVG-equipped pilots. A ground post's FLIR picked up a "super-hot" orb at ground level that split in two and outran the helicopter over some 20 miles. For about half an hour after, formations of orange orbs flared up and down in sequence, two of them close to the helicopter above the rotor disk. The official adds that the orbs appeared to pursue military aircraft. The FBI A and B photos in this release come from the same event.
Three separate measures, each with its reason. They are never added into a score.
E Evidence 3 of 3
Naked-eye witness, NVG-equipped pilots and a ground post using FLIR and NVG report the same orbs, with times, ranges and headings.
N Novelty 3 of 3
No earlier publication found in this task; the official's own narrative appears later as ODNI-UAP-D001.
L Linkage 1 of 3
No board entity is named; ties loosely to recent orb reports at sensitive U.S. sites.
Flags
- Paired. Read together with ODNI-UAP-D001.
- The file explains itself. Words in the file that bear on what it shows (recorded, not a verdict):
- spotted a possible aircraft on the horizon moving away to the west (page 1)
- Redacted: parts of the official copy are blacked out.
Reading published 31 Oct 2026.
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