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USPER Statement — 2025 Mountain Helicopter UAP Encounter

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USPER Statement — 2025 Mountain Helicopter UAP Encounter

The USPER Statement is a redacted U.S. Person (“USPER”) narrative report of a multi-witness UAP encounter during a late-2025 helicopter aerial search in U.S. mountainous terrain. It was released as part of pursue Release 01 on May 8, 2026 — the only domestic-routed State Department-channel record in the release. The local mirror is at ufo/raw/assets/pursue-release-01/usper-statement-redacted.pdf.

The classification is SECRET//NOFORN. Names, locations, agency identifications, and call signs are redacted, but the operational narrative is largely intact. This page summarizes the report; the full text is available locally.

Summary

On a date in 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence official (referred to as WITNESS 1) accompanied a second senior U.S. intelligence official (WITNESS 2), three federal partners, and pilots from a state partner organization on a daytime aerial search of a U.S. mountain range. The search was triggered by eyewitness reports from facility personnel who had observed “orbs/lights” and heard “thuds as if something had fallen and hit the ground.” On the same day, an unrelated test of (redacted equipment) had been completed at the search site.

The aerial mission progressed from daytime visual search through a near-five-hour engagement with what the report describes as “orbs” — multiple objects observed by the helicopter pilots (under Night Vision Goggles), an LP/OP team (under Forward Looking Infrared), and the senior intelligence official passenger (with the naked eye and helicopter spotlight).

Sequence of Events (excerpts)

TimeEvent
~17:00Daytime search begins; helicopter (CALL SIGN 1) departs operations center.
17:51Helicopter spots a “cavern entrance” at coordinates and orbits the location.
~20:50Helicopter lands; drops off WITNESS 2 + Federal Partner 3 personnel.
21:41Helicopter lifts off, heads toward debris reported by LP/OP using FLIR/NVG.
21:49LP/OP reports “hits” 4 miles out; helicopter moves to intercept.
22:02LP/OP describes a “super-hot” orb hovering at ground level, then breaks into two objects moving east then south at high speed.
22:07JOC reports five military aircraft in the airspace conducting a training mission.
22:??LP/OP: an orb gained elevation and came within ten feet of the helicopter before heading east at speed unmatchable by CALL SIGN 1.
22:18Pilots (NVG) and WITNESS 1 (naked eye) observe a swarm of lights — too many to count — moving in all directions west of position.
22:27WITNESS 1 and pilots see two large orbs flare up close to the helicopter, oval, orange with white/yellow centers, side-by-side, stationary, emitting light in all directions. A third orb flares up below them, then a fourth and fifth, until 4-5 are visible below the original two. They flare down in reverse order while remaining stationary.
22:284-5 orbs appear in horizontal formation over the military aircraft to the west; flare up one-at-a-time, then down in reverse order.
22:33Similar horizontal-formation orb pattern observed to the east near a town.
22:41Single orb flares up west of site; flares down.
22:49Three distinct orbs in a triangle formation within a swarm of lights west of position.
22:525-6 orbs flare up over a local town in horizontal formation.
22:574 orbs flare up over the military aircraft as they descend to land.
23:16Helicopter low on fuel, returns to operations center.

Witness 1’s notes

“Pilots indicated they were recording however many sightings were above the helicopter which was outside of the helicopter’s FLIR camera angle. Some things I could not see with the naked eye, but I recall the pilots calling out sightings. The orbs appeared to break off from [CALL SIGN 1] and pursue the [MILITARY AIRCRAFT].”

Significance

  • Multi-witness, multi-sensor: independent confirmations across naked eye, NVG, and FLIR, with both helicopter aircrew and senior U.S. intelligence official observing simultaneously.
  • Apparent interactive behavior: orbs “broke off” from the helicopter and pursued the military aircraft — the report explicitly characterizes the behavior as directional choice rather than static sighting.
  • Close approach: an orb came within ten feet of the helicopter, the closest USAF/USG-recorded helicopter-orb encounter in this vault.
  • Recurring formation patterns: horizontal formations of 4-6 orbs flaring up/down in sequence, observed at multiple times and locations across roughly 50 minutes.
  • Speed: at least one object pursued faster than the helicopter could match (helicopter “broke off pursuit”).
  • Domestic event: the only State-routed domestic incident in pursue Release 01, distinct from the dominant CENTCOM-AOR Middle East mission reports (department-of-war).

Caveats

  • The report is heavily redacted: names of all witnesses, agencies, helicopters, military aircraft, coordinates, the mountain range, the operations center, and the specific facility/test are all bracketed placeholders.
  • The narrative consistency and naming structure (“orbs,” “flared up,” “broke off”) suggest a single author’s narrative composition; this is one observer’s account assembled with corroborating LP/OP reports, not a fully independent multi-source synthesis.
  • “Orb” framing is consistent with anna-paulina-luna’s 46-video request which describes “spherical, cigar-shaped, and Tic Tac-like” objects (src-luna-46-uap-videos-demand-2026-03). Whether USPER overlaps with that demand is unclear from the public record.

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