PURSUE Release 02 dropped May 22. Six PDFs, mostly historical. But one document closes a distance Release 01 left wide open. Release 01 gave us the USPER Statement: AARO summarizing an FBI 302 summarizing a senior US intelligence officer who watched orbs over a weapons test range in late 2025. Three layers between us and the witness. Release 02 is the witness. Two pages, first person, his own words, filed as ODNI-UAP-D001. The mission was to investigate loud thuds in the mountains that lined up with several nights of orb sightings. It turned into over an hour of close encounters watched on FLIR, night vision, and the naked eye by the officer, two pilots, and ground teams, with radar correlation from the Joint Operations Center. Then this: "The ground team suddenly radioed that the object had risen from the ground, approached within ten feet of the helicopter, dropped below us, and then sped away. The pilots observed it through NVGs and saw it split into two as a smaller object emerged before it accelerated out of sight. We briefly pursued but broke off, unable to match its speed." The object splitting in two is not in the Release 01 summary. Neither is what happened next with the fighter jets. That gets its own post. Every element of the heavily redacted Release 01 version is here in the first person, with more structure. The "super hot" orb. The pursuit it outran. The swarm. They line up. The 302 is the sworn instrument. This is the richer account. Together they are the most complete public record of a single high-rank-witness UAP encounter in either release. He didn't take photos. In his words, he "was focused on assessing what it was and whether it posed a threat." FLIR, NVG, and radar records of the encounter existed. None of them are attached to this release. Source: ODNI-UAP-D001, PURSUE Release 02, cleared for release May 22, 2026. Available in the war.gov PURSUE Release 02 records. submitted by /u/PunchbowlPorkSoda [link] [comments]