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USPER Statement about UAP Sighting

Type

Document, 3 pages

Agency

FBI

Date

Late 2025

Place

United States

Released

Release 1, May 8, 2026

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The government's description

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.

SECRET//NOFORN
On
2025, at approximately 1700 hoursllll [WITNESS 1 (a senior US
inte Igence o Ic1al)], [FEDERAL PARTNER 1] and [ F ~ L PARTNER 2],
accompanied by [WITNESS 2 (a senior US intelligence official
ilots from
[STATE PARTNER ORGANIZATION], departed th
[OPERATIONS CENTER] ([COORDINATES]),
e Icop er (call sign
main
area via a [STATE PARTNE
[CALL SIGN 11) to conduct a daytime ariel search of the [MOUNTAIN RANGE NAME]
west of [SITE CODE NAME] on [FACIU~yewitness reports from
personnel who observed orbs/lights IV~[COORDINATES]) cited hearing
thuds as if someth-i
n has fallen and hit the ground. (Note: Earlier that day the
ffice
completed a successful test of the
at [SITE CODE NAME] ([COORDINATES]) on [FACILITY].
At 1751 hours
[CALL SIGN 1] spotte d e-cavern
l aentrance
r
([COORDINATES])
and conducted a short orbit of the location
roximately 2050 hours-[CALL SIGN 1] landed west of th~
mountains and dropped off [WITNESS 2) with [FEDERAL PARTNER 3]
personnel. At 2052 hours
[CALL SIGN 1] headed toward [SITE CODE NAME] to
refuel. A second helicopter ([STATE PARTNER ORGANIZATION] - [CALL SIGN 21)
brieflY. landed at [SITE CODE NAME] to await refueling but then lifted off and returned
to the
At a

At 2141 hours-[CALL SIGN 1) lifted off from [SITE CODE NAME] and headed
toward debris spotted by the Listening Post/Observation Post (LP/OP - [FEDERAL
PARTNER 4] personnel using Forward Looking Infrared (FUR) and Night Vision
Goggles (NVG)- position ([COORDINATES]) located approximately four miles east of
[SITE CODE NAME] in the mountains location ([COORDINATES])). [CALL SIGN
1] orbited the location while searching with NVGs (pilots) and the naked eye ([WITNESS
11) with the aid of the helicopter's spotlight in near fu ll darkness for several minutes with
negative results.
At approximately 2149 hours, [CALL SIGN 1] departed the search location to retu rn to
base and received notification from LP/OP that - h a d - h i t s bearing 4
miles out from their location. The JOC then provided coord ([COORDINATES]). [CALL
SIGN 1] moved to intercept.
At 2202 hours-[CALL SIGN 1] arrived at the aforementioned coordinates and
spotted a possible aircraft on the horizon moving away to the west. LP/OP confirmed
the sighting then relayed they spotted an orb under FUR and described as "super-hot"
hovering at ground level before heading bearing-from LP/OP. LP/OP reported the
orb was heading east and then south at a high rate of speed and then broke into two
objects. LP/OP directed [CALL SIGN 1] to head south to [COORDINATES] to intercept.
SECRET?/ NOFORN

SECRET//NOFORN
At 2207 hoursilllll JOC reported five [MILITARY AIRCRAFT] from
were in the air space conducting a training mission.
Once on station, [CALL SIGN 1] searched the location with FLIR, NVG, and the naked
eye but did not locate the orb. LP/OP reported the orb ained elevation, came within ten
feet of (CALL SIGN 1] and then headed east to
[CALL SIGN 1] moved to intercept but LP/OP reported the orb continued
southeast and estimated it to be past [ROAD NAME], some 20 miles from the current
position at[CALL SIGN 1], unable to match speed, broke off pursuit, however
the co-pilot reported seeing under NVG something emerge from the two objects and
then travel in a different direction and a high rate of speed.
At 2218 hours .
(CALL SIGN 1] remained at (COORDINATES] awaiting instructions
when the pilots (NVG) and (WITNESS 1] (naked eye) spotting a swarm of Ii hts too
and
many to count) moving in all directions but generally located west of
headed south. JOC relayed they contacted the [MILITARY AIRCRAFT] who were
enroute to assist, eta two minutes. At 2227 hours.
, (CALL SIGN 1] lost visual of the
swarm.
(possible out of order), in proximity of (SITE CODE
At approximately 2227 hoursNAME] headed south, [WITNESS 1] (naked eye) and the pilots (NVG) spotted two large
orbs appear in close proximity to [CALL SIGN 1] to the west and above the rotor disk.
From the naked eye perspective, the two orbs appeared to flare up and remain
stationary side by side. They appeared to be oval shaped, orange in color with a white
or yellow center and emitting light in all directions. After a few seconds, a third orb flared
up below the two, and then another one below that one until there were four or five in
total below the original two. After a few seconds the orbs began to flare down in reverse
order while appearing to be stationary until visual was lost.
At approximately 2228 hours(CALL SIGN 1] - [WITNESS 1] (naked eye) and the
pilots (NVG) spotted four or five orbs (similar to the orbs that were in close proximity to
the helicopter) appear to the west over the mountains above the (MILITARY
AIRCRAFT]. The orbs flared up one at a time in a horizontal formation and after
approximately ten - fifteen seconds, flared down in the opposite order.
(CALL SIGN 1] - (WITNESS 1] (naked eye) and the
At approximately 2233 hours pilots (NVG) spotted a similar orb formation to the east in the direction of (NEARBY
TOWN NAME]. The orbs flared up one at a time in a horizontal formation and after
approximately ten - fifteen seconds, flared down in the opposite order and lost visual.
At approximately 2241 hours(CALL SIGN 1] - (WITNESS 1] (naked eye) and the
pilots (NVG) spotted a similar orb flare up west of [SITE CODE NAME] over the
mountain. After several seconds the orb flared down and lost visual.

SECRET7/ NOFORN

SECRET//NOFORN
At 2249 hourswhile positioned IVO [SITE CODE NAME], [CALL SIGN 1] [WITNESS 1] ( n a ~ i l o t s (NVG) spotted a swarm of lights moving in all
directions west ofwith three distinct orbs in a triangle formation. After
several seconds the orbs flared down and lost visual.
At 2252 hours while positioned approximately ten miles north of [SITE CODE
NAME], [CALL SIGN 1] - [WITNESS 1] (naked eye) and the pilots (NVG) spotted five to
six orbs flare up IVO [LOCAL TOWN] (east of [SITE CODE NAME]). The orbs flared up
one at a time in a horizontal formation and after approximately ten seconds, flared down
,in the opposite order and lost visual.
At 2257 hourswhile positioned approximately ten miles north of [SITE CODE
NAME], [CALL SIGN 1] - [WITNESS 1] (naked eye) and the pilots (NVG) spotted four
orbs flare up over the [MILITARY AIRCRAFT] as they descended to land a­
•
The orbs flared up one at a time in a horizontal formation and after approximately
ten seconds, flared down in the opposite order and lost visual.
~ e l y 2306 hours
At 2316 hour
[OPERATIONS CENTER].

[CALL SIGN 1]
low on fuel, [CALL SIGN 1] returned to the

At approximately 2320 hourslllll [CALL SIGN 1] headed southbound for the
[OPERATIONS CENTER] and already in air-to air contact with [FEDERAL PARTER
AIRCRAFT], passed each other as [FEDERAL PARTER AIRCRAFT] headed north
toward [SITE CODE NAME].

[WITNESS 1] Comments:
many sIg Ings were a ove
camera angle.

- Pilots indicated they were recording however
e e ,cop er which was outside of the helicopters FLIR

Some things I could not see with the naked eye, but I recall the pilots calling out
sightings.
The orbs appeared to break off from [CALL SIGN 1] and pursue the [MILITARY
AIRCRAFT].

SECRET7/ NOFORN