DOW-UAP-D018, Mission Report, Iraq, December 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 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 one “possible UAP” flying from west to east. The observer did not pursue the UAP. 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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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff OVER FROM THE LRE. FROM 1323Z TO 0626Z,! 1.4a !COLLECTED SIGINT VIA AIRHANDLER. SEE UAP LINE l.AT 0426Z,~WAS CLEARED TO RTB. AT 0655Z,~HANDED BACK TO THE LRE. AT 0723Z,~LANDED AT OKAS. FMV WAS EXPLOITED BY DGS-AR fii'R.ELIIJO, Mission Narrative • Classificatiom Effleft'ffl:' • Classification Source (MS or Classification Guide ID): MULTIPLE SOURCES • Declassification Date (YYYYMMDD): 20471202 • Operation: INHERENT RESOLVE • Domain: AIR • Major Command (MAJCOM): ACC • Combatant Command (COCOM): USCENTCOM • Report Type: MISREP • Originator (Unit or Squadron): 482ATKS • Submit Date: Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 8 October 2025 • Tasking Order (ATO): ID • Mission Type: ISR • ATO Mission Number:! 1.4a • Country Tasked: US -UNITED STATES • Rank: AlC • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 603 AOC • Unit: 12 AF PAROC • Wing: Other • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: Other • Rank: SrA • Wing: Other • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 609 CAOC Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 8 October 2025 • 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 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: - • Num Chaff or Cartridges: - • 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: - • 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: - Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • Number of Aircraft: 1 • Takeoff Location (ICAO Code): OKAS • Mission Canceled: • Last Land Location (ICAO Code): OKAS • Last Land Time: 020723:00ZDEC22 • Last Engine Shutdown Time: 020733:00ZDEC22 • Total Mission Time: 19 hours 17 minutes • Msn Type: TARGET DEV • Tasking Type: PLANNED • BE Number (ifNTISR): - • Tasked Start Point: 38SMB4~83~ • Activity Description: ISR • FMV or Image File Name (if NTISR): - • EEis Observed: No • Number of EEis: Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff TAKE OFF. PRECOORD WAS SATISFACTORY. AT 1220Z,~ARRIVED ON STATION ISO T~FOR OP! 1.4a 1.4a, 1.4c TO CONDUCT POL SCANS AND ID ADMS IN SUITS, WEAPONS, CONVOYS/SENTRY, AND PERSONNEL! 1.4c 0426Z,~WAS CLEARED OFF TASKING AND RETURNED TO BASE (RTB) JSR ASSET UTILIZATION • Precoord Time: 236 MINUTES • Precoord Effectiveness: SATISFACTORY • Weather: (U) WEATHER WAS NOT A FACTOR • Intel Gap Filled?: No On Station • Mission Type: ISR • Did not Arrive On Station: OffS tation • Total Time On Station: 18 hours 35 minutes Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • Friendly Aircraft Speed: - • Friendly Aircraft State: - • Training Range (If applicable): - • UAP Physical State: - • Number of UAP Sighted: 1 • UAP Signatures: No • UAP Effects on Persons: (U) NONE REPORTED • UAP Altitude, Depth, Velocity, and Trajectory (indicate estimated or measured): - • UAP Description (e.g., size, shape, color, markings, recognizable features). tB,11'i'ifF➔ AT 16202, 1.4a !OBSERVED lX POSSIBLE UAP/UAV FLYING WEST TO EAST IVO 38SMB4~831I:4al ~DID NOT FOLLOW UAP. ~CONTINUED THE MISSION AS TASKED, NO FURTHER EVENTS WERE OBSERVED. Approved for Release to AARO
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 257 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #173 of 257 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #347 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (347 of 450 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.
Reported by a witness with no instrumented record. The lowest tier in the rubric's sensor axis. Eyewitness perception in field conditions, even when the witness is highly credentialed, scores below capture by any instrumented modality. This report reached the federal record through the Department of War.
Trained U.S. military personnel reporting from an operational mission context. A high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This is the witness profile shared by the entire AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the 66-point score band.
Single-witness or single-instrument capture. This is the corroboration tier for the overwhelming majority of the PURSUE archive on the released metadata - the rubric records the honest limit of the underlying record rather than inferring multi-witness corroboration that the released summaries do not establish. A small number of files with an independent second witness or instrument score on the multi-witness/multi-instrument tier above this one.
No kinematic measurements - speed, acceleration, vector - are published in the released file with sufficient precision to score on the kinematic axis. The rubric does not infer kinematic anomaly from narrative observer estimates. Every file in the archive carries this value, which is itself an observation about the disclosure: kinematic-grade telemetry was not part of what was released.
A conventional candidate explanation has been considered but is not dispositive. Every file in the archive scores this way - reflecting that the underlying release metadata systematically caveats strong determinations in either direction. The released summaries warn against reading them as conclusive analytical judgments, and the rubric respects that.
Catalogued as unresolved with no formal review process having concluded. This is the disposition for a large share of the archive's military infrared captures - the reports are logged into the system as unresolved, but no formal review has finalized. The rubric distinguishes this from 'open after review' because the absence of review is itself a status signal.
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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