DOW-UAP-D109

Mission Report, Middle East, 2022

Preview description (machine-generated): Military mission report with headings, dates, and redacted text.

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 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.

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AI summary

The DOW-UAP-D109 Mission Report documents a U.S. military encounter with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) observed over Iraq in 2022. The report includes qualitative descriptions from a military operator who witnessed six agile, spherical objects displaying rapid directional changes, along with video footage from an infrared system. This documentation is significant as it contributes to ongoing analyses and discussions regarding UAP encounters by military personnel.