Usper Statement Redacted

Summary

Three-page witness statement marked SECRET//NOFORN, held by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and released in batch R1 on 2026-05-08. The heavily redacted account describes a helicopter mission in 2025 by two senior US intelligence officials, labeled WITNESS 1 and WITNESS 2, with federal and state partner personnel, launched after personnel reported thuds as if something had fallen to the ground. The chronology records repeated orb encounters: an orb detected by FLIR and described as super-hot that the helicopter could not match in speed, a swarm of lights too many to count, and formations of orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up one at a time in horizontal lines before flaring down. The statement notes that the orbs appeared to break off and pursue military aircraft on a training mission.