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[FACILITY] (US military facility, exact name redacted)

An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.

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02 / Unstated region

[LOCAL TOWN] east of [SITE CODE NAME] (redacted)

An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.

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[LOCATION] mountains (redacted)

An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.

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[MOUNTAIN RANGE NAME] west of [SITE CODE NAME] (redacted)

An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.

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[OPERATIONS CENTER] (redacted)

An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.

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06 / Unstated region

[SITE CODE NAME] (redacted)

An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.

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15801 Decosta, Detroit, Michigan

David Weaver, age 23, of 15801 Decosta, Detroit, Michigan, telephoned the FBI Detroit office at 4:08 A.M. on April 17, 1958, to report seeing a circular object with a crystal-type dome that reflected lights. He said the object traveled from the southwest in a northern direction, crossing the city three blocks south of Six Mile Road at Lamphere Street. Weaver told the FBI he had first tried to reach Selfridge Field Air Force base but could not get through, and that he was on his way home from work when he saw the object. SA Robert Ross Reynolds authored the memorandum to SAC Detroit and recommended notifying Air Force authorities.

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08 / Unstated region

2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, California 90027

Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.

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09 / Unstated region

218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

In July 1947, W.R. Presley of 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, photographed what the Knoxville News-Sentinel called a flying saucer. Presley had been photographing his family and house and used his last frame on a shot of a nearby mountain; when the roll was developed, a bright circular object appeared in that final image. The newspaper reported it as the first time a flying saucer had ever been photographed over Oak Ridge and noted that the picture had "all of Oak Ridge talking." The FBI Knoxville Field Office forwarded two prints and a photostatic copy of the newspaper clipping to FBI Headquarters under an Internal Security file.

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10 / Unstated region

2315 Kimball Ave, Cornola, Nebraska

FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.

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2315 Kimball Ave, Omaha, Nebraska

FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 documents flying disc reports received between July and August 1947. On July 6, 1947, Rev. Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Church in Grafton, Wisconsin reported finding an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and held it for the FBI. On August 5, 1947, J. Edgar Hoover transmitted a letter from Fred R. Reibold of Conoha, Mississippi to the Director of Intelligence, War Department General Staff, describing a flaming circular object that fell in front of his house in Omaha, Nebraska on July 1, 1947.

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12 / Unstated region

2319 Himebaugh Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska

FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.

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13 / Unstated region

3 miles SW of SEATTLE-FORT, Louisiana

Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.

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35SPT63 (last UAP coordinate, estimated)

A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 33 SOS observed one UAP over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024, at 0509Z while in transit from LGLR. The observer reported the UAP was diamond-shaped with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom, flying at approximately 434 knots, and visible only on the SWIR camera. The event lasted approximately two minutes, ending at 0511Z without further incident. The report, classified SECRET and originating under USCENTCOM, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on October 24, 2025, and approved for release to AARO on October 28, 2025.

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35SQT46 (first UAP coordinate, estimated)

A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 33 SOS observed one UAP over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024, at 0509Z while in transit from LGLR. The observer reported the UAP was diamond-shaped with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom, flying at approximately 434 knots, and visible only on the SWIR camera. The event lasted approximately two minutes, ending at 0511Z without further incident. The report, classified SECRET and originating under USCENTCOM, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on October 24, 2025, and approved for release to AARO on October 28, 2025.

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363453N 0255943E (approx. 36°34′53″N 025°59′43″E)

A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP during a return-to-base flight over coordinates 363453N 0255943E in the Mediterranean Sea at 1319Z. The GENTEXT section of the Mission Report describes the UAP as "triangular and metallic," with an estimated altitude of 24,989 feet MSL and speed of 168 knots. Pages 1 through 6 are fully redacted under 1.4(a), and the incident date is absent from the available text.

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364 West Lewiston Avenue, Ferndale 20, Michigan

In June and July 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office interviewed civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff, who reported that Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson were organizing a paid flying saucer program at the Taft Auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Eickhoff expressed concern that the event, priced at two dollars per person, could constitute a fraud on the general public.

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36RXV 19 (ISR start point)

A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 33 SOS observed one UAP over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024, at 0509Z while in transit from LGLR. The observer reported the UAP was diamond-shaped with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom, flying at approximately 434 knots, and visible only on the SWIR camera. The event lasted approximately two minutes, ending at 0511Z without further incident. The report, classified SECRET and originating under USCENTCOM, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on October 24, 2025, and approved for release to AARO on October 28, 2025.

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