USPER Statement about UAP Sighting

On a late evening in 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence official and pilots from a state partner organization conducted an aerial search from a military facility in the western United States after reports of orb-shaped lights in the area. According to the file, the search began in daylight and extended into darkness, with personnel using a state helicopter equipped with Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) and Night Vision Goggles (NVG) to scan mountainous terrain. The operation was coordinated with a Listening Post/Observation Post staffed by federal personnel using FLIR and NVG, positioned approximately four miles from the facility.

The account describes a series of escalating sightings that unfolded over approximately two hours. At 2202 hours, the helicopter crew and ground observers spotted an object described as "super-hot" on FLIR hovering near ground level. The object then traveled east and south at high speed, eventually covering an estimated distance of 20 miles, a velocity the helicopter could not match. The co-pilot reported observing something emerge from two objects and travel at high speed in a different direction. Shortly thereafter, the crew and the senior intelligence official spotted what they described as a swarm of lights moving in multiple directions, too numerous to count.

Beginning at approximately 2227 hours and continuing over the next thirty minutes, the witnesses observed a repeating pattern. Two large orbs described as oval-shaped with orange coloring and white or yellow centers would flare up near the helicopter, remain stationary, and then additional orbs would flare up sequentially below them until four or five were visible. After several seconds, they would flare down in reverse order. This same pattern repeated multiple times at different locations across the area to the west, east, and north of the facility, in one instance near military aircraft that were operating in the airspace. The senior intelligence official noted in his comments that some sightings occurred outside the helicopter's camera field, though pilots called them out during real-time observations.

The file is heavily redacted regarding specific locations, facility names, aircraft designations, and personnel identities. No photographs, sensor data, or formal determination of the objects' nature appears in the document. This account is now part of the public PURSUE Release 01, declassified May 8, 2026.