ODNI UAP Records — Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence's first PURSUE contribution is a 2025 first-person narrative (DOC-142) by a senior U.S. Intelligence Community official describing a personal helicopter UAP encounter on a Western United States test range — released under PURSUE Release 02 on May 22, 2026.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is the U.S. federal agency that coordinates the seventeen-member U.S. Intelligence Community, including CIA, DIA, NSA, and the intelligence components of the military services. ODNI also houses the U.S. government's UAP coordination cell and produces the periodic 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' reports to Congress. ODNI's first contribution to the Pentagon's PURSUE program arrived in Release 02 on May 22, 2026 as catalog entry ODNI-UAP-D001 (UAP.WATCH ID DOC-142): a 2025 U.S. Person (USPER) first-person narrative authored by a senior U.S. Intelligence Community official describing a personal UAP encounter from a helicopter on a Western United States test range. The narrative is six pages long, contains zero redactions, and describes multiple distinct phenomena including a 'super-hot' FLIR target, oval orange orbs in 'T' formation, and orbs matching fighter-jet speed.
“We were virtually speechless after these observations.”
What the narrative describes
DOC-142 is a first-person USPER narrative by a senior U.S. Intelligence Community official describing a late-2025 helicopter encounter on a Western United States test range. After radar detected hits up-range from the witness's position, the helicopter intercepted a 'super-hot' Forward-Looking Infrared target that, according to the ground team, rose from the ground, approached within 10 feet of the helicopter, dropped, split into two, and accelerated away. Later, at 700 feet AGL, the witness and pilots observed two large oval orange orbs flare up beside the rotor disk, joined by additional orbs in a 'T' formation. When fighter jets entered the airspace, similar orbs appeared above them at approximately 2,300 feet AGL, matching the jets' speed in horizontal formation.
Why the zero-redaction status matters
Most ODNI-released material on intelligence-community personnel uses extensive (b)(6) personal-privacy and (b)(7) law-enforcement redactions to protect identities and sources. DOC-142 contains zero redactions across all six pages — including the witness's first-person account of a personal experience. This is an unusual posture for an ODNI USPER release and suggests deliberate disclosure-program intent.
ODNI's coordination role
ODNI's role under PURSUE is interagency coordination across CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, NSA, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the intelligence components of the military services. ODNI is not the originating authority for the underlying records — those remain with the originating agencies — but ODNI sets the standard for what may be declassified and at what cadence.