DOW-UAP-D061, Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, August 2020

Official Conclusion

Unresolved; PID lost in cloud cover and could not be regained

Official Description

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 a “formation of unknown flying objects” traveling northeast to northwest along the coast for approximately two minutes. The report notes that light cloud coverage “prevented the continuous tracking of the formation.” 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.

Key Findings

• →At 1527Z on 27 August 2020, the aircraft observed a formation of unknown flying objects (UNK formation) traveling NE-NW along the coast IVO grid 39RVM8.
• →The formation was tracked by sensor for approximately 2 minutes before positive identification (PID) was lost in light cloud cover and could not be regained.
• →Light cloud coverage is explicitly documented as having prevented continuous tracking of the UAP event, limiting observational data.
• →The aircraft received a guard call from Iranian Air Defense at 0532Z on a standard frequency, with no mission impacts reported.
• →The mission was an ISR/AREC flight supporting NAVCENT, with FMV exploited by DGS-1, and the primary sensor was ANDAS4 with AH_GMESH also available.

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