Declassified UAP

DOW-UAP-D008

Mission Report, Djibouti, 2025

Format
Document, 7 pages
Incident date
Not given
Released
Release 01, May 8, 2026
Source
war.gov
Topics
Mission reports

Description from war.gov

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 “white hot UAPs.” The reporter estimated the UAP’s speed as approximately 240 nautical miles per hour (276 mph). 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.

Redactions war.gov lists this record as redacted. Withheld material is blacked out in the file itself.

7 pages, 86 words of text

Page 1

1.4(a)

Page 2

1.4(a)

Page 3

1.4(a)

Page 4

1.4(a)

Page 5

1.4(a)

Page 6

1.4(a)

Page 7

1.4(a) 1.4(a) GENTEXT/UAP • UAP Description (e.g., size, shape, color, markings, recognizable features): (Бело-HEE TO ) AT 1653Z, 1.4(a) OBS 2X ROUND WHITE HOT UAPS DYNAMIC SOUTH AT APPROX 240NM/HOUR IVO 35SQT3423692957. • Gentext (UAP Event Description): (Seen 3) AT 1653Z, 1.4(a) OBS 2X UAPS DYNAMIC SOUTH AT APPROX 240NM/HOUR IVO 35SQT3423692957.

The text is machine-read (OCR) from the scan and can contain errors. The scan is the record.

Download the document Open on war.gov

Machine summary

Written by Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) on May 22, 2026, from the record's text and war.gov's description. It is not part of the record and can contain errors; check it against the document.

DOW-UAP-D008 is a Mission Report (MISREP) dated 2025, released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026, as part of the PURSUE Release 01 program. The incident location is listed as the Mediterranean Sea. A U.S. military operator reported observing two round, "white hot" UAPs at 1653Z, moving southward at approximately 240 nautical miles per hour (276 mph), near grid coordinate 35SQT3423692957. The report was submitted to AARO through standard military UAP reporting channels.

The document is heavily redacted under exemption 1.4(a), with six of seven pages withheld in full; the only substantive content visible is the GENTEXT section. The operator's identity, platform type, sensor details, and broader mission context are all absent. The estimated speed of 240 knots is within the range of conventional aircraft, but no identification or resolution is documented here. The geographic discrepancy between the listed incident location (Mediterranean Sea) and the document title (Djibouti) is unresolved in the available text.

Most frequent words

Select one to highlight it in the text above.

military gentext uaps hour often white reporter event features description dynamic south approx document mission misrep standardized reporting form uses record circumstances surrounding operations services misreps unidentified anomalous phenomena aaro

Records whose war.gov description names this one.

  1. DOW-UAP-PR029 Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, June 2024 Department of War Video No incident date or place given

Closest matches by the text of the documents.

  1. DOW-UAP-D005 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020 Department of War Document No incident date or place given
  2. DOW-UAP-D054 Mission Report, Mediterranean Sea, NA Department of War Document No incident date or place given
  3. DOW-UAP-D007 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020 Department of War Document No incident date or place given
  4. DOW-UAP-D004 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020 Department of War Document No incident date or place given
  5. DOW-UAP-D006 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020 Department of War Document No incident date or place given
  6. DOW-UAP-D106 Mission Report, Iraq, 2022 Department of War Document 2022
  7. DOW-UAP-D003 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020 Department of War Document No incident date or place given
  8. DOW-UAP-D014 Mission Report, Iraq, May 2022 Department of War Document 5/29/22