DOW-UAP-D032, Mission Report, Syria, October 2024

Official Conclusion

Benign; no mission impact; not assessed as a lasing event; UAP under no intelligent control.

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 “misshapen and uneven ball of white light,” describing multiple “glares or light” emanating from an “unknown origin.” The reporter described the UAP as a “light/glare halo effect” at the top of the Full-Motion Video (FMV) feed. 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 1559Z on 20 October 2024, an ISR asset operating at 20,088 feet at 144 knots observed multiple glares or lights of unknown origin crossing the FMV camera feed at different angles and directions over a period from 1559Z to 1644Z.
• →The UAP was described as a 'misshapen and uneven ball of white light' and classified in the report as physical state: Plasma, with UAP signatures listed as LIGHT.
• →The aircrew assessed the UAP as benign, noted no mission impact, and explicitly assessed the event was not a lasing event.
• →No sensor interrogation of the UAP was conducted; no third-party observers were listed; no effects on persons or equipment were reported; no materials were recovered.
• →The UAP event was formally recorded with serial number 201559ZOCT2024 and released to AARO, with the observer (rank E-4) providing the primary account via FMV sensor data.

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