Declassified UAP

DOW-UAP-D050

Email Correspondence, INDOPACOM, April 2025

Format
Document, 2 pages
Incident date
4/10/2025-4/11/2025
Place
INDOPACOM
Released
Release 01, May 8, 2026
Source
war.gov
Topics
Correspondence

Description from war.gov

This document is email correspondence describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification on its content. 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.

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2 pages, 202 words of text

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(b) (6) I just got off the phone with the unit that flies .4(a) They said to me that the two lines listed are on the UNCLASSIFIED level and that adding in the AOR as INDOPACOM is also at the UNCLASSIFIED level. (b) (6) PAROC Intel Data Analysis Technician Team Lead 12 AF / DET 3 (b) (6) (b) (6) CLASSIFICATION: SECRET//NOFORN Hello, Per our conversation, can you please confirm that the 1.4(a) tearlines below are at the UNCLASSIFIED level? Also, could you please confirm that we can use the AOR INDOPACOM. Thạnk vou. (b) (6) 1

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(b) (6) CLASSIFICATION: SECRET//NOFORN (b) (6) CLASSIFICATION: SECRET NOFORN Hello, I wanted to clarify that these tearlines are approved at the UNCLASSIFIED level. .4(a) on 10APR25 //UNCLASSIFIED// US AIRCRAFT OBSERVED 1X POSS UAP FOR 12 SECONDS AT 2353Z, FLYING AT UNK ALTITUDE AND UNK SPEED, NO INTERFERENCE WAS NOTED. //UNCLASSIFIED// 1.4(a) on 11APR25 //UNCLASSIFIED// US AIRCRAFT OBSERVED 1X POSS UAP FOR 23 SECONDS AT 0007Z, FLYING AT UNK ALTITUDE AND UNK SPEED, NO INTERFERENCE WAS NOTED. //UNCLASSIFIED// Thank you, (b) (6) Information Disclosure Analyst Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (b) (6) 2

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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-D050 is a short email chain dated April 10–11, 2025, involving personnel from 12th Air Force / Detachment 3 and the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. The correspondence concerns a mission report from an unidentified unit operating in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. The emails confirm the classification level of two incident tearlines: on April 10, a U.S. aircraft observed one possible UAP for 12 seconds at 2353Z; on April 11, a U.S. aircraft observed one possible UAP for 23 seconds at 0007Z. Both sightings reported unknown altitude and speed, with no interference noted.

The document's primary purpose is administrative — confirming that specific tearlines and the INDOPACOM AOR designation are releasable at the unclassified level. The unit name, aircraft type, and precise location are redacted under exemptions 1.4(a) and (b)(6). No sensor data, imagery, or further analysis is included. The observations are brief and instrumentation-limited, consistent with airborne visual or sensor contacts logged through standard military UAP reporting channels.

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unclassified level classification secret noforn content indopacom hello please confirm tearlines aircraft observed poss seconds flying altitude speed interference noted document email correspondence describing mission requesting clarification descriptive estimative language

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