Iraq UAP, December 2022

A U.S. Air Force mission report records one possible unidentified anomalous phenomenon or UAV near Baghdad on 1 December 2022. The aircraft took off from OKAS at 1206Z on 1 December and landed there at 0723Z on 2 December. The report was filed under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE as an ISR mission, with a total mission time of 19 hours 17 minutes.

The narrative states that at 1620Z the aircraft observed a possible UAP. The UAP section lists one UAP sighted, an initial contact time of 011620Z DEC 22 and a friendly aircraft altitude of FL180. The description reads that the aircraft observed one possible UAP/UAV flying west to east and did not follow it. The report adds that no further events were observed. The form records no UAP signatures and no effects on persons. Fields for the object's altitude, velocity and trajectory were left blank.

The report says weather was not a factor. It also says the full motion video was exploited by DGS-AR. The ISR section records no essential elements of information observed. The report states no conclusion about what the object was.

A separate Department of War release, a video titled as an unresolved UAP report from Iraq in December 2022, carries the official conclusion Unresolved. The catalogue analysis describes a ten-second infrared clip in which an area of contrast moves from lower left to upper right and leaves the frame at about six seconds. It notes that the mission report describes the object as flying west to east.

Both documents give the same month and country. The mission report's own wording, "possible UAP/UAV", leaves open that the object was an unmanned aircraft, but the report does not say so as a finding.