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Active leadUseful case file with unresolved ambiguity and room for more corroboration.

The single highest-rank witness in the entire Pentagon UAP release is a senior US intelligence official describing a thirty-minute multi-orb event at a US military facility in late 2025. His FBI 302 is in the file. Almost no coverage.

Orb30 minOfficial docDec 31, 2025, 12:00 AMUS military facility

Witnesses

Unknown

Duration

30 min

Source material

2

Timeline

3

Source context

Limited context

54

Interesting, but still missing stronger corroboration or harder source material.

Source provenance

r/UFOs

Live sighting record 7d2a45dc-ae34-4982-9842-40436c1bb887.

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Correlations

Field Intelligence

Moon phase

84% illumination

Waxing gibbous — moderate moon brightness

Solar window

Sunrise7:17 AM
Sunset4:24 PM
Day length9h 08m

Weather

Open-Meteo
ConditionsMainly clear
Temperature22°F
Cloud cover28% · Mostly clear
Wind15 mph

Area activity

Within 2 daysNo sightings within 60 mi

Extracted details

Observed facts

Occurred

Dec 31, 2025, 12:00 AM

Timezone

Eastern Time

Location

US military facility

Duration

30 min

Witness account

Narrative

PURSUE Release 01 dropped 162 files on May 8. The bulk of the coverage went to the Apollo 17 photo and the "Eye of Sauron" line from the Western US orbs case. One of the documents in the release is titled "USPER Statement (Redacted)." USPER is FBI shorthand for "U.S. Person," the standard redaction for a named American witness. The document is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a senior US intelligence official. AARO's own description, verbatim: "This is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a...

Case progression

Timeline

Encounter windowDec 31, 2025, 12:00 AM

Witnesses place the encounter near US military facility.

PublishedMay 15, 2026, 1:51 AM

r/UFOs carried the report into the source network.

Linked event

Grouped into the PURSUE Release incident dossier.

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Source material

source

Original report

Open

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telemetry

Environmental pass

Historical atmosphere, astronomy, and nearby infrastructure were resolved for this case.