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A senior US intelligence official and military helicopter pilots using FLIR and NVGs simultaneously observed orbs that hovered, split, outpaced a pursuing helicopter over 20 miles, and repeatedly formed structured multi-orb patterns near both the helicopter and military aircraft, with LP/OP ground sensor corroboration of the initial FLIR 'super-hot' detection.
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Official 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.
Key Findings
This SECRET//NOFORN document is a detailed chronological incident report (likely an FBI 302 or similar intelligence debrief) in which a senior US intelligence official (Witness 1) recounts a multi-hour UAP encounter in 2025 at or near a classified US military facility. The account documents the aerial search mission conducted by helicopter, the detection of a 'super-hot' orb under FLIR that split into two objects and outpaced the helicopter, and repeated observations of luminous orb formations appearing and disappearing over a roughly two-hour period. Multiple federal and state personnel, as well as military aircraft, were involved or present during the events.
Analyst Notes
All specific names, locations, coordinates, dates, and organizational identifiers are redacted, significantly limiting independent verification. The FLIR camera angle limitation meant many sightings were captured only by naked eye or NVG rather than recorded infrared video. No official analysis or conclusion is provided in this document. Military training aircraft were noted in the airspace at the time, raising potential misidentification concerns for some luminous formations, though the LP/OP FLIR detection of a 'super-hot' hovering orb predates the military aircraft arrival. Document is apparently a first-person debrief account rather than a formally analyzed intelligence product.
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