PURSUE Record — PURSUE R02 ODNI-UAP-D001 — USPER firsthand narrative (late 2025): Office of the Director of National Intelligence · U.S. military test range · L

PURSUE R02 ODNI-UAP-D001 is a two-page firsthand, first-person narrative released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on May 22, 2026, as part of PURSUE Release 02. The author is a senior U.S. intelligence officer describing a UAP encounter at a U.S. military test range in late 2025. This is not a summary prepared by a third agency — it is a primary-source account written by the witness himself, making it the highest-rank single-witness document in the entire PURSUE release set to date.

What this record contains

The record is a single-part PDF declassified by ODNI and assigned official ID ODNI-UAP-D001. The two-page narrative documents a series of observations at a U.S. military test range during the same late-2025 incident referenced elsewhere in the PURSUE series. According to the official description, the account describes an object approaching within ten feet of a pursuit helicopter and then splitting in two; orbs appearing directly above fighter jets at approximately 23,000 feet and matching their flight path; T-formations and triangles of orange orbs at 700 feet AGL; and what the witness characterizes as a "large cave entrance with no visible end" near the orb-activity zone.

Critically, the narrative confirms that FLIR, night-vision goggle, and radar records of the encounter existed at the time of writing. None of those sensor records have been released as of the May 22, 2026 publication date. The document thus functions both as testimony and as an implicit inventory of unreleased corroborating material.

Historical & documentary context

ODNI's involvement in UAP disclosure traces directly to the 2021 Preliminary Assessment and the subsequent National Defense Authorization Act mandates that created the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. By late 2025, senior intelligence personnel operating on or near military test ranges were operating under formal reporting obligations — meaning this narrative was not an informal anecdote but a structured account produced within an institutional chain of custody. First-person narratives of this type are standard instruments in intelligence reporting; their evidentiary weight depends heavily on the rank and access of the author, both of which the official metadata describe here as significant.

The test-range setting also matters. U.S. military test ranges are among the most sensor-dense environments in the country, with overlapping radar coverage, airborne FLIR platforms, and ground-based optical systems. The witness's confirmation that such records exist — and that they captured the same events described in the narrative — places this document in a chain of evidence rather than in isolation.

What this does and does not prove

What the record documents is straightforward: a senior ODNI officer attests, in writing, to a sequence of observed phenomena at a U.S. military test range in late 2025, and affirms that contemporaneous sensor data was collected. What the record does not do — and what no single witness account can do — is establish the nature, origin, or physics of the observed objects. The phenomena described are reported observations, not analyzed conclusions. Extraordinary consistency between the narrative and unreleased sensor records would substantially strengthen the account; absent those records, the document stands as credible testimony under institutional reporting standards, not as proof of any specific explanation. The PURSUE release set, including this document, is investigative material. Nothing in it constitutes a verdict.

How it fits the PURSUE release set

PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026) included a USPER Statement in which AARO summarized an FBI 302 interview covering this same late-2025 test-range incident — a third-party summary of a summary. ODNI-UAP-D001 is the source layer beneath that: the witness's own words, in his own document. Read alongside the broader PURSUE case catalogue and the Release 01 and Release 02 coverage on this blog, it represents the clearest direct testimony yet published about a contemporary U.S. military UAP encounter — and the one that most explicitly points to a body of sensor evidence still waiting for release.

Editorial note: This analysis is independent commentary on a publicly released document. The original record, source links, and full release metadata are catalogued on the SkyLens UAP files page alongside every other case in the PURSUE Release 01 set.