PURSUE Record · Release 02

ODNI-UAP-D001

Agency: ODNI  ·  Type: Document  ·  Date: 2025  ·  Location: Western United States  ·  Status: Unresolved

Official description

A first-hand narrative from a senior U.S. Intelligence Community official documenting a 2025 UAP encounter in the Western United States. The official described non-ballistic flight characteristics that defy known aviation technology, near sensitive domestic sites.

Curator's note

The archive's most contemporary record, and its most misread. As evidence about the object — a 2025 close-range encounter in the Western United States, non-ballistic flight, an apparent atmospheric distortion around it — a single narrative with no published sensor corroboration is weak, and honest readers should treat it that way. As evidence about the institution it is stronger: a senior intelligence official reported it, ODNI formally recorded and retained it, and of everything it could have contributed to PURSUE it chose this — a signal that the reporting is current and domestic, not archaeological. The redactions remove the geography; the meta-question they can't remove is how many comparable narratives were not selected for release.

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