DOW-UAP-D109, Mission Report, Middle East, 2022
This document is a Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized reporting form the U.S. military uses to record the circumstances surrounding its operations. U.S. military services often use MISREPs to report unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The GENTEXT, or “general text” section of these reports often contains important qualitative, contextual information, distinguishing it from the more quantitative, or numerical, data found elsewhere in the report. This mission report accompanies video footage derived from an infrared system aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022 (DOW-UAP-PR140 and DOW-UAP-PR141). A U.S. military operator reported observing UAP, describing it as consisting of “six small spherical objects grouped together. They characterized the behavior of the UAP as “seem[ingle] agile,” and “frequently changing direction.” The reporter estimated the speed of the UAP to have been 480 miles per hour. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.
Text of the document
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DECLASSIFED UNCLASSIFIED Declassified by: SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 20260710 FULL MOTION VIDEO WAS EXPLOITED BY (b)(1) (B) TASKING PROSECUTED, (b) (1TOTAL TASKINGS PROSECUTED • Classification: SECRET • Associated Caveats: REL TO USA, FVEY • Classification Source (MS or Classification Guide ID): MS • Declassification Date (YYYYMMDD): 20470504 • Operation: INHERENT RESOLVE • Domain: AIR • Major Command (MAJCOM): AFCENT • Combatant Command (COCOM): USCENTCOM DECLASSIFED SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY
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DECLASSIFED UNCLASSIFIED Declassified by: SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 20260710 • Report Type: MISREP • Originator (Unit or Squadron): 20 ATKS • Submit Date (Auto-generated): • Tasking Order (ATO): ZZ • Country Tasked: US - United States • Service: Air Force • Service: Air Force SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY
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DECLASSIFED UNCLASSIFIED Declassified by: SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 20260710 • Service: Air Force • Full Name: • Phone Number: • Operations Center: • Radar Name or Destination: • Radar Software Load or Mission Data: • Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) Name or Designator: • RWR Software Load or Mission Data: • MWS Name or Designator: • MWS Software Load or Mission Data: • IRCM Name or Designator: • IRCM Software Load or Mission Data: • ECM Name or Designator: • ECM Software Load or Mission Data: • CMD Name or Designator: • Chaff Designator: • Num Chaff or Cartridges: • Flare Designator: • Num Flares: • Towed Decoy Name or Designator: • Towed Decoy Software Load or Mission Data: • Num Towed Decoys: • Type of Radar-Guided AAM: • Num Radar-Guided AAM: SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY
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DECLASSIFED UNCLASSIFIED Declassified by: SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 20260710 • Type of IR-Guided AAM: • Num IR-Guided AAM: • Gun Name or Designator: • Num Gun Rounds: • Air-to-Ground Wpn to Include Num of Each: - • Data Link: • Number of Aircraft: (b) • Mode 3 (IFF Codes): • Mission Canceled: On Station • Did not Arrive On Station: Off Station DECLASSIFED SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY
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DECLASSIFED Declassified by: SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 20260710 • Last Land Time: 051924:00ZMAY22 • Last Engine Shutdown Time: 051934:00ZMAY22 • Tasking Type: PLANNED • BE Number (if NTISR): - • Activity Description: TARGET DEVELOPMENT • FMV or Image File Name (if NTISR): - • EEIs Observed: • Number of EEIs: DEVELOPMENT ON (b) (1) (B) MISSION INTENT FOR THE TASKING WAS TO CONDUCT POL, IDENTIFY PID OF WEAPONS AND WEAPONS/AMMO STORAGE AREAS, AS WELL AS IDENTIFY PERSONNEL WITHIN THE COMPOUND. LOOKING FOR PID OF(b) (1) (B) CONDUCTED EEI RELATED ACTIVITY AND OBSERVED NO ISR ASSET UTILIZATION • Precoord Effectiveness: SATISFACTORY • Weather: (SECRET\\REL TO USA, FVEY) DUE TO DUST STORMS SOME COLLECTION ON UAPS WAS AFFECTED BETWEEN 0524Z AND 0704Z. DECLASSIFED SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY
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DECLASSIFED UNCLASSIFIED Declassified by: SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 20260710 • Intel Gap Filled?: Yes • Relative Bearing or Clock Position: • Method of Observation: FMV • EEIs Observed: • Number of EEIs: WITHIN THE TARGET AREA AND IN THE NE PORTION OF (b) (1) (B) ACCORDING TO THE (b)(1) (B) , THE UAPs WERE TRAVELLING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS BETWEEN 80-180 MPH. WE WERE UNABLE TO DETERMINE ALTITUDE. THE SIZE OF THE UAPs WERE APPROXIMATELY 1-2 METERS. DURING THE OBSERVATION PERIOD, (b) (1) (B) WOULD REACQUIRE THE UAPs AFTER RETURNING THE SENSOR BACK TO THE ORIGIONAL POI LOCATIONS. THE UAPs DID NOT HINDER THE MISSION. WSV IS ATTACHED BELOW SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 282 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #225 of 282 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 478-file archive it ranks #400 of 478.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (400 of 478 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
Anomalousness Index: 53/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the Department of War, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
Reported by trained U.S. military personnel during an operational mission (2022) - a high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This profile is shared across the AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the archive's densest scoring band, at 66.
On corroboration, this file from the Department of War - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file from the Department of War is catalogued as unresolved, with no formal review process having concluded - logged into the system, but not yet finalized by any review. The rubric treats that differently from 'open after review,' because the absence of a completed review is itself part of the file's status, not a placeholder for one.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 53/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
Related files in DoD
Other PURSUE files in the same category, ranked by Anomalousness Index.
DOW-UAP-PR024, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023
DOW-UAP-PR072, "ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinit…
DOW-UAP-PR106, Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020
DOW-UAP-PR108, Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 2020
DOW-UAP-PR109, Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2015
DOW-UAP-PR110, Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020
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