PURSUE Record — USPER Statement about UAP Sighting: Department of State · United States · Late 2025

One of the 120 PDF documents in PURSUE Release 01 is titled "USPER Statement about UAP Sighting." Released on May 8, 2026 by the Department of State, it is an FBI 302 interview record — a standardized form used to document witness statements collected by federal agents — in which a senior U.S. intelligence official describes, in his own words, a direct encounter with anomalous aerial phenomena at a U.S. military facility in late 2025. The record is a single-part file. It is not a sensor log, a radar return, or a classified analysis. It is a sworn account, and that distinction matters.

What this record contains

The document originates from the Department of State and takes the form of an FBI 302 — the bureau's standard format for memorializing witness interviews. The subject is identified in the release as a "senior US intelligence official," referred to by the designation USPER. The incident is placed at a U.S. military facility, sometime in late 2025. According to the description blurb accompanying the release, USPER told FBI agents that he, along with other federal and state personnel, searched an area where orbs had been previously reported. Deploying a helicopter, the team located a "super-hot" orb hovering close to the ground. That orb then traveled approximately 20 miles at a speed exceeding what the pursuing helicopter could match. A "swarm" of lights was subsequently observed moving in multiple directions. Four or five additional orbs then appeared briefly, flaring up and then dimming, with this flaring pattern repeating over the course of roughly thirty minutes across the area.

The public release does not include additional metadata beyond what is described above — no precise geographic coordinates, no unit designations, and no supporting instrumentation data are attached to this single-part file.

Historical & documentary context

The FBI 302 format has been a cornerstone of federal law enforcement recordkeeping for decades, and its appearance in a UAP release carries specific evidentiary weight. A 302 is not an analysis or a conclusion — it is a structured contemporaneous record of what a witness stated, signed off by the interviewing agents. The bureau has used 302s in UAP-adjacent contexts before: declassified FBI files from the late 1940s and 1950s, some of which appear elsewhere in the PURSUE Release 01 set, document civilian and military sightings using the same format. What distinguishes this record is its recency. This is not Cold War-era archival material. The incident falls in late 2025, placing it squarely inside the post-AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) policy environment — a period in which federal agencies have explicit statutory obligations to document and report UAP encounters. The involvement of a senior intelligence official, interviewed formally by FBI agents, suggests the encounter was treated by the relevant agencies as operationally significant enough to generate a formal interview record.

The broader context is the legislative and executive push, beginning with the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act and accelerating through subsequent UAP disclosure mandates, to surface encounter records that were previously handled informally or withheld. The Department of State's role as releasing agency for an FBI-generated document reflects the interagency nature of modern UAP reporting infrastructure.

What this does and does not prove

What is documented here is that a named senior official made specific claims to FBI agents under formal interview conditions, and that those agents recorded those claims in a 302. The behaviors described — a thermally anomalous hovering object, apparent high-speed travel beyond helicopter capability, multi-object swarming activity, and a repeating flare-and-dim cycle sustained over thirty minutes — are the witness's account of what he observed, not independently verified phenomena. No sensor data, radar tracks, electro-optical footage, or corroborating instrumentation records are attached to this filing as released. Whether the observed behaviors have conventional explanations — atmospheric phenomena, classified domestic programs, sensor or perception effects under stress — cannot be answered by this document alone. "Unresolved" in the context of PURSUE Release 01 means the case has not been explained, not that anomalous origin has been established. The record is evidence that the encounter was reported and formally documented; it is not evidence of what caused what was seen.

How it fits PURSUE Release 01

Within the 162-document PURSUE Release 01 set — which spans 28 videos, 14 images, and 120 PDFs across agencies including the Department of War, NASA, and the FBI — this record belongs to the contemporary witness-statement category alongside other FBI interview files from the post-2020 reporting era. It complements, rather than duplicates, the sensor-based records in the release: where radar and electro-optical systems capture instrument data, 302s capture human observational accounts from credentialed witnesses. Taken together, the release is designed to show analytical breadth across source types. This file is catalogued in full on the SkyLens UAP files page alongside the complete PURSUE Release 01 index, and additional coverage of FBI-sourced records appears across the PURSUE blog series.

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.