DOW-UAP-D050, Email Correspondence, INDOPACOM, April 2025
Official description
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.
✦ AI summary
Declassified two-page email chain (classification banner SECRET//NOFORN on the emails themselves, though the substantive tearline content is UNCLASSIFIED) between defense intelligence personnel confirming the classification level of two UAP incident tearlines before their release. A PAROC Intel Data Analysis Technician Team Lead (12 AF/DET 3) first confirmed by phone with the flying unit that two summary lines were UNCLASSIFIED and that identifying the Area of Responsibility (AOR) as INDOPACOM was also releasable at UNCLASSIFIED level. A second requester then asked an Information Disclosure Analyst at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to confirm the same, who replied confirming approval at UNCLASSIFIED level and provided the two tearlines: on 10 April 2025, a US aircraft observed 1x possible UAP for 12 seconds at 2353Z, flying at unknown altitude and unknown speed, with no interference noted; and on 11 April 2025, a US aircraft observed 1x possible UAP for 23 seconds at 0007Z, also at unknown altitude and speed with no interference noted. This document illustrates the administrative declassification-review process used to clear brief UAP incident summaries for public/AARO release rather than providing a detailed incident report.
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▸Transcript(2 of 2 pages legible)
[PAGE 1] [Email 1, forwarded/reply chain, bottom-up] 'I just got off the phone with the unit that flies [redacted, FOIA Exemptions (b)(6), 1.4(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.' [Redacted, (b)(6)] - PAROC Intel Data Analysis Technician Team Lead, 12 AF / DET 3. [Redacted, (b)(6), 1.4(a)] CLASSIFICATION: SECRET//NOFORN [Email 2, original request] 'Hello, Per our conversation, can you please confirm that the tearlines below are at the UNCLASSIFIED level? Also, could you please confirm that we can use the AOR INDOPACOM. Thank you, [redacted, (b)(6)]' [PAGE 2] CLASSIFICATION: SECRET//NOFORN [repeated banner, twice] [Email 3, reply confirming classification and providing the tearlines] 'Hello, I wanted to clarify that these tearlines are approved at the UNCLASSIFIED level. [Tearline 1] 1.4(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// [Tearline 2] on 11APR25 1.4(a) //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, [redacted] - Information Disclosure Analyst, [redacted, (b)(6)] - Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. [redacted, (b)(6)]
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Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo
