DOW-UAP-D064, Mission Report, Iran, November 2020
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 two UAP on November 2, 2020, at 2143Z and at 2148Z. The first observation occurred at an unknown altitude. The reporter described the second UAP’s direction of travel as proceeding to the northwest. 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 USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on 16 March 2026 FOUO / Privacy Act applies Ol 12Z~UPPORTED NAVCENT FOR OPERATION I lb}{1}14a UVO ARABIAN GULF, STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND GULF OF OMAN. SEE JSR LINE 1. AT 1012~ 1.4a RECEIVED A GUARDCALL SEE GUARDCALL LINE 1. AT 2!143z80BSERVED A UAP. SEE OBS LINE 1. AT 2148Z~SERVED A UAP. SEE OBS LINE 2. AT 0112Z 1.4a WAS CLEARED TO RTB. AT 021~ HANDED BACK TO Ill$ LRE. AT 02502, 1.4a LANDED AT OKAS. FMV WAS EXPLOITED BY DOSI. 20.42 MIIS SION fH OURS, 18.55 IMINT HOURS, 1 IMINT • Associated Caveats: • Classification Source {MS or Classification Guide ID): MUL IPLE SOURCES • Domain: AIR • Major Command {MAJCOM): ACC • Combatant Command (COCOM): USCENTCOM • Report Type: MISREP • Originator (Unit or Squadron): 482ATKS • Submit Date (Auto-generated): USCENTCOM MOR 26-0028 Approved for Release to MRO -FOUO / IPA applies 03/16/26 000001
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on 16 March 2026 FOUO / Privacy Act applies • Tasking Order (ATO): EX • Mission Type: AREC • Country Tasked: US -UNITED STATES • Rank: SrA • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: Other • Unit: 12 AF PAROC • Wing: Other • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: Other • Unit: Unavailable • Service: Air Force • Operations Center: 609 CAOC USCENTCOM MOR 26-0028 Approved for Release to MRO -FOUO / PA applies 03/16/26 000002
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on 16 March 2026 FOUO / Privacy Act applies • 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: - • 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 lndudeNum of Each: 1.4(a) • Additional Avionics: AH_GMESH_ VORTEX USCENTCOM MOR 26-0028 Approved for Release to MRO -FOUO / IPA applies 03/16/26 000003
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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on 16 March 2026 FOUO / Privacy Act applies • Last Land Location (ICAO Code): OK.AS • Last Land Time: 030250:00ZNOV20 • Last Engine Shutdown Time: 030J00:00ZNOV20 • Total Mission Time: 20 hours 42 minutes • Number of Aircraft: 1 • Takeoff Location (ICAO Code): OK.AS • Mission Canceled: On Station • Mission Type: AREC • Did not Arrive On Station: USCENTCOM MOR 26-0028 Approved for Release to MRO -FOUO / PA applies 03/16/26 000004
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USCENTCOM Chi for Sta FOUO / Pnvacy Act applies • Tasking Type: PLANNED • BE Number (ifNTISR): - • Tasked Start Point: 39RUP~a • Activity Description: ISR • FMV or Image File Name (ifNTISR): - TO TAKE OFF. PRECOORD WAS SATISFACTORY. AT 1015Z~ 1.4a ~RRJVED ON STATION ISO NAVCENT FOR OPERATION! fb)(1)1,4a tlO CHAR'4CTERlZE TRTN\IRGCN VESSELS, UAS ACTIVITY, ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF PORTS, AND TO ESTABLISH PATTERN OF LIFE. AT ~CONDUCTED SCANS [AW THE TARGET DECK IN ARABIAN GULF (AG). AT 2143Z, OBS LINE 2. FROM 19102 TO 22102,I 1.4a ~ONDUCTED OPpN WATER SCANS ISO UUV, NO IDENTIFICATION OF UUVWAS FOUND. FROM 221oz TO 0~132,~0NDUCTED SCANS IAW THE TARGET DECK lN THE ARABIAN GULF (AG). AT l l2Z~AS CLEARED OFF TASKING AND RETURNED TO BASE (RTB) JSR ASSET UTILIZATION • Snpported Unit: NAVCENT • Precoord Time: 24 HOURS • Precoord Effectiveness: SATISFACTORY • Intel Gap Filled?: No OffS tation • Total Time On Station: 18 hours 55 minutes USCENTCOM MOR 26-0028 Approved for Release to MRO-FOUO / PA applies 03/16/26 000005
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USCENTCOM Chief or Sta FOUO / Pnvacy Act applies • Aircraft Callsign • Number of Calls Noted from the Same Agency: l • Guardcall Tone: PROFESSSIONAL DEFENSE. ORDERS GIVEN: STANDARD CALL~RESPONDED WITH STANDARD RESPONSE l. NO IMPACT TO THE MISSION • Relative Bearing or Clock Position: • • Observed Activity Location: 39RWK~~a • Observed Activity Desuiption: UAP • Method of Observation: FMV • Gentext: --■ AT 2143Z~ 1.4a pBSERVED IX UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENON USCENTCOM MOR 26-0028 Approved for Release to MRO -FOUO / PA applies 03/16/26 000006
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Declass fi d by MG Richard A. Hamson USCENTCOM Chief or Sta FOUO / Pnvacy Act applies • Aircraft Airspeed: 107 KlAS • Relative Bearing or Clock "Position: - • Observed Activity Location: 39RWK1~ • Observed Activity Description: UAP • Method of Observation: FMV • Gente::d: •-■ AT 2148Z,EfB SERVED AN ADDITI NAL UAP TRAVELING NW lVO USCENTCOM MOR 26-0028 Approved for Release to MRO-FOUO I PA applies 03/16/26 000007
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 #198 of 257 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #372 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (372 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.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the Department of War, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
Reported by trained U.S. military personnel during an operational mission (11/2/20) - a high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This profile is shared across the AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the archive's densest scoring band, at 66.
On corroboration, this file from the Department of War - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file from the Department of War is catalogued as unresolved, with no formal review process having concluded - logged into the system, but not yet finalized by any review. The rubric treats that differently from 'open after review,' because the absence of a completed review is itself part of the file's status, not a placeholder for one.
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-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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