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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.
This is a USCENTCOM mission report (MISREP) from Operation Inherent Resolve, dated October 20-21, 2024, documenting a 20-hour ISR sortie flown by a classified Air Force special operations asset based at OJMS. During the mission, an Unidentified Aerial/Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) was observed at 1559Z via FMV camera feed, described as a misshapen ball of white light with glare/halo effects appearing at multiple times between 1559Z and 1644Z. The aircrew assessed the UAP as benign with no mission impact.
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Analyst Notes
The aircrew explicitly assessed the UAP as benign and noted it did not constitute a lasing event, suggesting a mundane optical artifact explanation (lens flare, sensor artifact, or atmospheric light scatter) was considered. The phenomenon was observed solely through an FMV camera feed — no direct visual, radar, or additional sensor corroboration was obtained, and the interrogation field explicitly states 'NO.' All kinetic parameters (altitude, velocity, trajectory of UAP) are listed as unknown/estimated with no measured data. The observer was a single E-4 ranked crew member. The video description references irregular brightness appearing at the top edge of the sensor display consistent with a camera artifact or glare, which strongly supports a non-anomalous explanation. No physical evidence was recovered.
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