Sean Kirkpatrick

Active-duty Navy Senior Chief observes 4 Tic Tac objects — one emerging from the ocean — confirmed on radar and EO/IR. First ever active-duty U.S. Navy congressional testimony. Transmedium behavior (ocean-to-air), synchronized departure with no thermal or sonic signature.

The 'USPER Statement' is an FBI-302 interview with a currently serving senior U.S. intelligence-community official —identity protected under source rules— about a first-hand orb encounter at a sensitive Western US test installation in 2025. After searching by helicopter the area where orbs had previously been seen, the team found a 'super-hot' orb hovering over the ground that traveled 20 miles at a speed impossible for the pursuing helicopter; a 'swarm' of lights then appeared, and four or five orbs flared up and down over half an hour. The official saw it with the naked eye alongside two pilots on night vision; other pilots and ground observers with NVG also witnessed it, and ground personnel took photos through night-vision devices. Declassified in the first PURSUE release (FBI-302) and expanded in the second (ODNI-UAP-D001 narrative).

On April 16, 2016, a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft filmed over Mosul a metallic sphere moving with no wings, visible propulsion or obvious thermal signature. The video was officially presented by Pentagon AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick at the April 2023 Senate hearing, where it was shown alongside a near-identical 2022 Middle East case and declared 'still being studied'. Iraq's first case: an officially acknowledged, unresolved military sensor datum —its strength is the institutional chain of custody, not a conclusion about its nature.