DOW-UAP-D010

Mission Report, Middle East, May 2022

Redacted government mission report document.

Official description

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 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. A U.S. military operator reported observing “5x UAP fly across the screen.” The report continues by describing one of those observations as a “possible missile” and the remaining four as “possible birds.” 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.

Reproduced verbatim from the releasing agency.

AI summary

The DOW-UAP-D010 Mission Report provides a standardized account of a U.S. military operation in Iraq on May 6, 2022, where a military operator reported observing five unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The report highlights the subjective interpretations of the observer, categorizing one UAP as a 'possible missile' and the others as 'possible birds,' underscoring the complexity of identifying UAP in real-time military contexts.