DOW-UAP-D019, Mission Report, Syria, February 21, 2023
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 balloon” at approximately 2,100 feet. 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 MUWAFFAQ SALTI AIR BASE (OJMS) ISO OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE TO CONDUCT DCA IVO ESSA. MISSION WAS NOT FLOWN AS FRAGGED D2 MSN AMENDS. (COMBINED TOTAL) OF FUEL (MOM TRACK). PROCEEDED TO CONDUCT DCA IVO ESSA. (COMBINED TOTAL) OF FUEL (GANDER TRACK). (GANDER TRACK). (iRlEl51BO, Mission Narrative Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • Classification: SECRET • Classification Source (MS or Classification Guide ID): MULTIPLE SOURCES • Declassification Date (YYYYMMDD): 20480120 • Operation: INHERENT RESOLVE • Domain: AIR • Major Command (MAJCOM): AFCENT • Combatant Command (COCOM): USCENTCOM • Report Type: MISREP • Originator (Unit or Squadron): 389 EFS • Submit Date: • Tasking Order (ATO): LG • Mission Type: DCA • ATO Mission Number:! 1.4a • Country Tasked: US -UNITED STATES Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 8 October 2025 • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 609 CAOC • Rank: SrA • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: Other • Phone Nunww, FOIA Exem tion b 6 • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 609 CAOC • Full Name: • Phone Number: • Operations Center: Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • Radar Software Load or Mission Data: SUITE 9.1 • Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) Name or Designator: ALR-56C • RWR Software Load or Mission Data: IRSWA PACER WARE • 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: • Num Chaff or Cartridges: 120 • Towed Decoy Name or Designator: • Towed Decoy Software Load or Mission Data: • Num Towed Decoys: • Num Radar-Guided AAM: 2 • Type of IR-Guided AAM: AIM-9X • Num IR-Guided AAM: 2 • Gun Name or Designator: M61Al • Num Gun Rounds: 510 • TGT Pod Name or Designator: SNIPER-SE • Additional Avionics: • Radar Software Load or Mission Data: SUITE 9.1 • Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) Name or Designator: ALR-56C • RWR Software Load or Mission Data: IRSWA PACER WARE • MWS Name or Designator: • MWS Software Load or Mission Data: • IRCM Name or Designator: • IRCM Software Load or Mission Data: • ECM Name or Designator: Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 8 October 2025 • ECM Software Load or Mission Data: • Num Chaff or Cartridges: 120 • Towed Decoy Name or Designator: • Towed Decoy Software Load or Mission Data: • Num Towed Decoys: • Num Radar-Guided AAM: 2 • Type of IR-Guided AAM: AIM-9X • Num IR-Guided AAM: 2 • Gun Name or Designator: M61Al • Num Gun Rounds: 510 • TGT Pod Name or Designator: SNIPER-SE • Additional Avionics: • Number of Aircraft: 2 • Takeoff Location (ICAO Code): OJMS • Mode 3 (IFF Codes): MUWAFFAQ SALTI AIR BASE (OJMS) ISO OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE TO CONDUCT DCA IVO ESSA. MISSION WAS NOT FLOWN AS FRAGGED D2 MSN AMENDS. • Mission Canceled: Approved for Release AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • Last Land Location (ICAO Code): OJMS • Last Land Time: 210425:00ZFEB23 • Last Engine Shutdown Time: 210435:00ZFEB23 • Total Mission Time: 4 hours 55 minutes On Station • JTAR Number: • Killbox (Location): ESSA • Mission Type: DCA • JTAC Callsign: KINGPIN W/ KINGPIN AND PROCEEDED TO CONDUCT DCA IVO ESSA. • Did not Arrive On Station: OffS tation • Total Time On Station: 3 hours 37 minutes AIR REFUEL • Tanker Track: MOM • Scheduled Flight Duration: • Actual Flight Duration: - • Actual Onload Fuel as Receiver: 37K LBS • Dump Reason: • ROBE Equipped: • Tanker Track Location: Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff GENTEXTIAIR REFUEL 37K LBS (COMBINED TOTAL) OF FUEL (MOM TRACK). • Receiver Remarks: AIR REFUEL • Tanker Track: GANDER • Scheduled Flight Duration: • Actual Flight Duration: - • Actual Onload Fuel as Receiver: 33.5K LBS • Dump Reason: • ROBE Equipped: • Tanker Track Location: GENTEXTIAIR REFUEL 33.5K LBS (COMBINED TOTAL) OF FUEL (GANDER TRACK). • Receiver Remarks: AIR REFUEL Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 8 October 2025 • Tanker Track: GANDER • Scheduled Flight Duration: • Actual Flight Duration: - • Dump Reason: • ROBE Equipped: • Tanker Track Location: LBS FUEL (GANDER TRACK). • Receiver Remarks: • Type of EMI: RADAR JAMMING • Aircraft Heading: • Aircraft Airspeed: • Mission Changed: None • EMI Impact to System: PARTIAL Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 8 October 2025 • Mission Impact: NONE • JSIR Report ID: 340377 • Global Campaign Plan: • Gentext: tBONF) 0021Z-0024Z ~CEIVED MFT RADAR JAMMING IVO SHADDADI tSilNf} '!'HIS EVENT IS STANDARD ON AZIMUTH, MFT RADAR JAMMING EXPERIENCED BY AIRCREW NORTH OF SHADDADI. OUR WORKING THEORY IS THAT IT IS AN ABRA OF EFFECT TURKISH X-BAND JAMMER ON OR ACROSS THE SYR/TUR BORDER INTO TURKEY. • Lateral CPA: • Horizontal CPA: • Aircraft Type: 3x POSS UAP • Aircraft Number: • Country of Origin: \8'0m~AS CRUSING IN CAP AT FL270. NO RADAR RETURNS RECEIVED FROM UAP. NO HEALTH EFFECTS EXPERIENCED BY AIRCREW. 2 WHITE OBJECTS IR SIGNIFICANT. • Weather: CLOUDY. Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 8 October 2025 • Lateral CPA: • Horizontal CPA: • Aircraft Type: BALLOON • Aircraft Number: • Country of Origin: • Weather: CLOUDY 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 #174 of 257 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #348 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (348 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.
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DOW-UAP-PR024, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023
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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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