diff --git a/docs/source/ruletypes.rst b/docs/source/ruletypes.rst
index bb6ca2b4..2e26b0ca 100644
--- a/docs/source/ruletypes.rst
+++ b/docs/source/ruletypes.rst
@@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ import
 
 ``import``: If specified includes all the settings from this yaml file. This allows common config options to be shared. Note that imported files that aren't
 complete rules should not have a ``.yml`` or ``.yaml`` suffix so that ElastAlert doesn't treat them as rules. Filters in imported files are merged (ANDed)
-with any filters in the rule. You can only have one import per rule, though the imported file can import another file, recursively. The filename
-can be an absolute path or relative to the rules directory. (Optional, string, no default)
+with any filters in the rule. You can only have one import per rule, though the imported file can import another file or multiple files, recursively.
+The filename can be an absolute path or relative to the rules directory. (Optional, string or array of strings, no default)
 
 use_ssl
 ^^^^^^^