DOW-UAP-D023, Mission Report, United Arab Emirates, October 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 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.
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Text of the document
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison illl llMIJIifl 811 IUIU USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 12 September 2025 FOUO / Privacy Act applies SEE GUARD CALL LINE 1. SPARTAN SHIELD (OP! 1.4a SEE JSR LINE 1. @H,QRI!T:iHOfORl f; AT 02412,[iiuOBSERVED IX UAP. SEE UAP LINE I. tO:'MJLID Mission Narrative USCENTCOM MOR 25-0104 Approved for Release to MRO -FOUO / PA applies 09/12/25 000001
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Declassified by MG Richard A Harrison Ill IMT IIHIN T USCENTCOM Chief of Staff FOUO Privacy Act applies • Classification Source (MS or Classification Guide ID): MULTIPLE SOURCES • Declassification Date (YYYYMMDD): 20481025 • Operation: OP SPARTAN SHIELD • Domain: AIR • Major Command (MAJCOM): ACC • Combatant Command (COCOM): USCENTCOM • Report Type: MISREP • Originator (Unit or Squadron): 50ATKS • Submit Date: • Tasking Order (ATO): UR • ATO Mission Number:! 1.4a • Country Tasked: US -UNITED STATES • Rank: AlC USCENTCOM MOR 25-0104 Approved for Release to M RO -FOUO / PA applies 09/12/25 000002
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison BIil!lllllli!lUIP8NI USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 12 September 2025 FOUO / Privacy Act applies • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 609 CAOC • Unit: PAROC • Wing: Other • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: Other • Rank: SrA • Wing: Other • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 609 CAOC • Full Name: • Phone Number: • Operations Center: • Radar Name or Destination: - USCENTCOM MOR 25-0104 Approved for Release to AARO -FOUO / PA applies 09/12/25 000003
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison l■ IMS UHIIIIII USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 12 September 2025 FOUO / Privacy Act applies • 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: - • TRCM Software Load or Mission Data: - • ECM Name or Designator: - • ECM Software Load or Mission Data: - • Num Chaff or Cartridges: - • Towed Decoy Name or Designator: - • Towed Decoy Software Load or Mission Data: - • Type of Radar-Guided AAM: - • Num Radar-Guided AAM: - • Type of m-Guided AAM: - • Num TR-Guided AAM: - • Gun Name or Designator: - • Num Gun Rounds: - • Air-to-Ground Wpn to Include Num ofEach: - • TGT Pod Name or Designator: ANDASl • Number of Aircraft: 1 • Takeoff Location (JCAO Code): OMAM • Mode 3 (IFF Codes): • Mission Canceled: USCENTCOM MOR 25-0104 Approved for Release to MRO -FOUO / PA applies 09/12/25 000004
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison ill■ .IINIW:UUIIUNI USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 12 September 2025 FOUO / Privacy Act applies • Last Land Location (ICAO Code): OMAM • Last Land Time: 242058:00ZOCT23 • Last Engine Shutdown Time: 242108:00ZOCT23 • Total Mission Time: 20 hours 43 minutes On Station • Did not Arrive On Station: • Total Time On Station: 17 hours 17 minutes lilll URIIW 111HINI USCENTCOM MOR 25-0104 Approved for Release to MRO -FOUO / PA applies 09/12/25 000005
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Declassified by MG Richard A Harrison i!IIU!IMIIIIISI 9181 USCENTCOM Chief of Staff FOUO Privacy Act applies SUPPORTING NAVCENT ISO OP SPARTAN SHIELD IVO 40RBP5filir>~h4a! PLEASE REFERENCE THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR POST MISSION ISR PRODUCTS~.sc, (b)(!l JSR ASSET UTILIZATION • Supported Unit: NAVCENT • Supported Operation: OP SPARTAN SHIELD (OP._!____1_._4__a ___. • Precoord Time: 154 MINUTES • Precoord Effectiveness: SATISFACTORY • Weather: ti:!1Mh' WEATHER WAS NOT A FACTOR • Intel Gap Filled?: No • Ground Station CaUsign: lRANIAN_AlR_DEFENSE • Number ofCalls Noted from the Same Agency: I • GuardcaU Tone: Professional IRANIAN AIR DEFENSE STATING "MAINTAIN SAFE DISTANCE FROM BORDER". CALL WAS PROFESSIONAL. ~RESPONDED "THIS IS A COALITION AIRCRAFT CONDUCTING ROUTINE OPERATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL AIRSPACE". AT 0l45Z, THE CALLS FROM HI llllillW 1111 HI 111111 USCENTCOM MOR 25-0104 Approved for Release to AARO -FOUO / PA applies 09/12/25 000006
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Declassified by MG Richard A Harrison IIIMT UHINI USCENTCOM Chref of Staff FOUO Privacy Act applies IRANIAN AIR DEFENSE CEASED. • UAP Event Type: UAP Incident • UAP Maneuverability Observations: NONE • UAP Response to Observer Actions: UNK • Friendly Aircraft Location: 39RYJ9C6M4~1.4al • Friendly Aircraft Trajectory: 280 DEGREES • Observer Assessment of UAP: Benign • Friendly Aircraft Speed: 162 KTAS • Observation Interrogation of UAP (yes/no; if yes list sensor(s) and returns):: UNK • Third-party Observers and/or Reporters: UNK • Friendly Aircraft State: • Training Range (If applicable): UNK • Operational Range: UNK. • UAP Physical State: Solid • Number of UAP Sighted: • UAP Propulsion Means: UNK • UAP Payload: • UAP Under Intelligent Control (yes/no; if yes, describe): NO • UAP Signatures: THERMAL SHOWED COLD • UAP Advanced Capabilities And/Or Materials (yes/no; if yes, describe): UNK • UAP RF Frequency: UNK • UAP RF Duration: UNK • UAP Event Serial Number: UNK • UAP Effects on Persons: NO • UAP Objects/Material Recovered (yes/no; if yes, describe): UNK • UAP Effects on Equipment: UNK. • Full Name: • Observer Engagement of UAP (yes/no; if yes, describe): NO • First Seen Radius: S • Last Accuracy: Estimated • Last Seen Radius: 5 USCENTCOM MOR 25-0104 Approved for Release to M RO -FOUO / PA applies 09/12/25 000007
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Declassified by MG Richard A Harrison IIIMT UHINI USCENTCOM Chref of Staff FOUO Privacy Act applies • Kinetic Altitude Accuracy: Estimated • Kinetic Altitude: UNK. • Kinetic Depth Accuracy: Estimated • Kinetic Depth: UNK. • Kinetic Velocity Accuracy: Estimated • Kinetic Trajectory Accuracy: Estimated • Kinetic Trajectory: UNK. • UAP Date of DoD Acquisition: 240241 :00ZOCT23 • UAP Reaction to Observation, Interrogation, Engagement (yes/no; ifyes, describe): UNK. • UAP Anomalous Characteristics/ Behaviors: UNK. • First Accurac : Estimated • UAP First Seen Location: • UAP Last Seen Location: • UAP Altitude, Depth, Velocity, and Trajectory (indicate estimated or measured): • UAP Description (e.g., size, shape, color, markings, recognizable features): UNK. • Gentext (UAP Event Description): (S/NF)AT 02412,~OBSERVED IX UAP IYO
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 #176 of 257 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #350 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (350 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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