A senior US intelligence official filed an FBI 302. That is the document. That is the whole thing. He described an orb at a US military facility that outran a military helicopter by 20 miles. Not "wasn't identified." Not "appeared to move fast." Outran it. At a speed the helicopter could not match. He filed that on record. Then the swarm moved in. Four or five additional orbs, flaring up, then down, across the area, for 30 minutes. Federal and state personnel had already been searching that area because orbs had been reported there before. The helicopter had thermal optics. It found the orb hovering over the ground first, then it couldn't keep up. I have been reading the actual case descriptions in the actual PURSUE release files. That is verbatim what the government filed. That is verbatim what they released publicly. The helicopter had FLIR, radar, and thermal imaging. The 302 interview is what they released. The sensor data from that helicopter is, presumably, what they did not release. Those are two very different things. What I find interesting is not whether this is extraterrestrial. What I find interesting is that a senior intelligence official, with an actual aircraft involved and 30 minutes of sustained activity, is in a file release that everyone is ignoring in favor of a football-shaped infrared blob. The highest-rank first-hand witness in the entire release, and the coverage moved the other direction. submitted by /u/PunchbowlPorkSoda [link] [comments]