DOW-UAP-D027, 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 at an estimated altitude of approximately 24,000 feet. The observer estimated the UAP’s speed as 163 knots (187 mph). 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 AT 2100Z, (b)(1)1.4a TOOK OFF FROM OMAM VIA SLR. (b)(1)1.4aPROCEEDED TO FRAGGED TASKING. AT 2256Z, (b)(1)1.4a CONDUCTED A NON-INTERFERENCE BASIS TASKING (SEE NIB 1). AT 0444Z, (b)(1)1.4a CONDUCTED A NON-INTERFERENCE BASIS TASKING (SEE NIB 2). AT 0405Z, (b)(1)1.4a RETURNED TO BASE. AT 0713Z, (b)(1)1.4a CONDUCTED SLR AND LANDED AT OMAM. 10:13 MISSION HOURS. (S/RELIDO) Mission Narrative • Classification: SECRET • Associated Caveats: NOFORN • Classification Source (MS or Classification Guide ID): MS • Declassification Date (YYYYMMDD): 20490606 • Operation: ENDURING SENTINEL • Domain: AIR Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • Major Command (MAJCOM): AFSOC • Combatant Command (COCOM): USCENTCOM • Report Type: MISREP • Originator (Unit or Squadron): 3 SOS • Submit Date: • Tasking Order (ATO): DK • Mission Type: ISR • ATO Mission Number: • Country Tasked: US -UNITED STATES • Rank: SrA • Full Name: • Unit: Unavailable • Phone Number: • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 609 CAOC • Full Name: • Phone Number: • Service: Air Force Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • Rank: SrA • Full Name: • Unit: Unavailable • Phone Number: • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 609 CAOC • 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 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: • CMD Name or Designator: • Chaff Designator: • Num Chaff or Cartridges: • Flare Designator: • Num Flares: • Towed Decoy Name or Designator: • Towed Decoy Software Load or Mission Data: Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • 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: • Data Link: LINK 16 • Number of Aircraft: 1 • Asset Type (Aircraft): • Takeoff Location (ICAO Code): OMAM • Mission Canceled: • Last Land Location (ICAO Code): OMAM • Last Land Time: 070713:00ZJUN24 • Last Engine Shutdown Time: 070723:00ZJUN24 • Total Mission Time: 10 hours 13 minutes On Station • Time On Station DTG: • Mission Type: ISR Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • JTAC Callsign: ITC AT 1822Z, (b)(1)1.4a WAS 7-LINED. DID NOT ARRIVE ON-STATION DUE TO WX RTB AT 0405Z. (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY) • Did not Arrive On Station: On Off Station • Time Off Station DTG: • Total Time On Station: • Earliest Time Intelligence of Value: 062256:00ZJUN24 • Latest Time Intelligence of Value: 062330:00ZJUN24 • ISR Support or Effect: FMV • Target Name: • Location of Interest (LOI): - • Requested Classification of Reports: SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY • Dissemination POCs or Common File: - • EEIs: (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY) A. BEGIN SCANS AT 75NM WEST, NORTH, AND EAST OF SP FOR DHOWS TRANSITING IN THE DIRECTION OF SP B. PROVIDE SITREP WITH FLAG STATUS, FLAG, OR NO FLAG VISIBLE AND COUNTRY OF FLAG (IF POSSIBLE), COORDINATES AND OBSERVED ACTIVITY. C. CALL OUT ANY IDENTIFIABLE EQUIPMENT, COMMS EQUIPMENT, PERSONS WEAPONS, CARGO ON BOARD TO INCLUDE CANCAS COVERED ITEMS (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY) • Gentext: (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY) UPON ARRIVAL TO SP AT 2256Z, (b)(1)1.4a OBSERVED NO PERSONNEL OR VEHICLE ACTIVITY. BETWEEN 2257Z-2330Z, (b)(1)1.4aCONDUCTED SCANS IVO THE SP AND PROVIDED CALLS ON ANY DHOW ACTIVITY. ITC INTENT MET. (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY) Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • UAP Event Type: UAP Incident • UAP Maneuverability Observations: FLYING STRAIGHT JUST OVER THE WATER AT SPEED • UAP Response to Observer Actions: NO CHANGE • Tail Number: • Friendly Aircraft Trajectory: 294 • Observer Assessment of UAP: Benign • Friendly Aircraft Speed: 163 KNOTS • Observation Interrogation of UAP (yes/no; if yes list sensor(s) and returns):: NO • Friendly Aircraft State: • Training Range (If applicable): N/A • UAP Physical State: Solid • Number of UAP Sighted: • UAP Propulsion Means: UNKNOWN • UAP Payload: • UAP Under Intelligent Control (yes/no; if yes, describe): • UAP Advanced Capabilities And/Or Materials (yes/no; if yes, describe): NO • UAP Event Serial Number: 060457ZJUN2024-CENTCOM • UAP Effects on Persons: NO • UAP Objects/Material Recovered (yes/no; if yes, describe): NO • UAP Effects on Equipment: - • Full Name: • Observer Engagement of UAP (yes/no; if yes, describe): NO • First Seen Radius: • Last Accuracy: Estimated • Last Seen Radius: 5 • Kinetic Altitude Accuracy: Estimated • Kinetic Depth Accuracy: Estimated Approved for Release to AARO
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff • Kinetic Velocity Accuracy: Estimated • Kinetic Velocity: 140 KNOTS • Kinetic Trajectory Accuracy: Estimated • UAP Date of DoD Acquisition: 070457:00ZJUN24 • UAP Reaction to Observation, Interrogation, Engagement (yes/no; if yes, describe): NO • UAP Anomalous Characteristics/ Behaviors: • First Accuracy: Precise • 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): (SECRET//NOFORN) GLOWING HOT SPHERICAL UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT WITH A VERTICAL UNWAVERING CYLINDRICAL POLE/BAR ATTACHED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE OBJECT POSS REFLECTION FROM THE OBJECT IN THE WATER, MOVING AT 140KNOTS • Gentext (UAP Event Description): (SECRET//NOFORN) DURING RTB AT 0457Z, (b)(1)1.4a OBSERVED 1X UAP WHILE TRANSITING OVER 40RFM60 2 FLYING AT AN ALTITUDE OF 23,999FT MSL AND SPEED OF 163KTS. • Earliest Time Intelligence of Value: 070444:00ZJUN24 • Latest Time Intelligence of Value: 070548:00ZJUN24
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 #178 of 257 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #352 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (352 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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