ODNI Senior US Intelligence Officer narrative, Western US
First-person narrative account from a Senior US Intelligence Community official describing UAP behavior observed during a Western US incident in 2025. Released through PURSUE Release 02 on May 22, 2026. The first ODNI contribution to PURSUE.
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PURSUE portal ↗Official description
ODNI-UAP-D001 (filename USPER_Narrative_Senior_USIC): first-person narrative authored by a Senior US Intelligence Community official, describing observed UAP behavior including objects exhibiting close-approach patterns to active US military aircraft. The narrative is approximately 58 KB and runs several pages.
Editor's context
Until this release, ODNI had contributed no primary material to PURSUE despite hosting the National Intelligence Manager for Aviation and the Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP-related products. ODNI-UAP-D001 changes that. The narrative format is unusual: it is neither a sensor record nor a standard intelligence assessment but a named US Person account by a Senior official, which the ODNI typically reserves for the highest-confidence material.
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- Stampp. coverOFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
- StampDECLASSIFIED PER PURSUE, May 22, 2026
- AnnotationDesignation USPER (US Person) marks the named-source individual as a US citizen, triggering specific protective handling under intelligence-community guidelines.
- AnnotationFirst ODNI contribution to the PURSUE catalog.
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U.S. Government. "ODNI Senior US Intelligence Officer narrative, Western US." Released via PURSUE program, 2026-05-22. File ID: PURSUE ODNI-UAP-D001. https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/052226/release_02/ODNI-UAP-D001_USPER_Narrative_Senior_USIC.pdf. Accessed 2026-06-17 via Social Media for Aliens archive, https://socialmediaforaliens.com/files/odni-senior-usic-western-us-2025.
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