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Location
Arabian Gulf
12 of the 19 declassified cases list this as the incident's official location. 7 more cases only mention it in the document text, without it being the official record. Documented incidents span 2020 to 2023.
A single agency is involved: Department of War. The case files here include documents and videos. 19 cases carry visible redactions.
Where these cases happened
3 positions are the coordinates written in the declassified report itself, recovered from the OCR transcript, not the generic centre of the area.
Cases
| File ID | Date | Agency | Type | Pages read | Official | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOW-UAP-D023 | 10/31/23 | Department of War | Document | 9/9 | Official | Declassified USCENTCOM Mission Report (MOR 25-0104) from the 50th Attack Squadron / 432nd AEW, covering a 20-hour-43-minute ISR sortie flown 24 October 2023 out of Al Dhafra Air Base (OMAM), UAE, supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan S… |
| DOW-UAP-D038 | 5/14/20 | Department of War | Document | 1/1 | Official | Declassified single-page 'Range Fouler Debrief Form' (a standardized SPEAR/Navy-style UAP reporting questionnaire), submitted for an encounter on 14 May 2020 at 2040Z (night) in the Middle East (working area code 28314; the form's latitude… |
| DOW-UAP-D042 | 8/31/20 | Department of War | Document | 1/1 | Official | Declassified single-page 'Range Fouler Debrief Form,' a standardized SPEAR UAP reporting questionnaire, submitted by a pilot (rank O-2) of the 482nd Attack Squadron (482 ATKS). Per the document's own fields the encounter date is 31 August 2… |
| DOW-UAP-D060 | 8/8/20 | Department of War | Document | 6/6 | Official | This is a six-page USCENTCOM mission report (MISREP 4592219) from the 482ATKS (432 AEW, ACC) for an AREC mission flown on 8-9 August 2020, released to AARO and declassified on 20 March 2026 (USCENTCOM MDR 26-0038 to MDR 26-0046). The aircra… |
| DOW-UAP-D061 | 8/27/20 | Department of War | Document | 7/7 | Official | This 7-page USCENTCOM mission report (Misrep 4685903; release stamp MDR 26-0019) covers a single-aircraft AREC (ISR) sortie from OKAS that took off at 2307Z on 26 August 2020 and landed at 2012Z on 27 August 2020, with 21 hours 5 minutes of… |
| DOW-UAP-D062 | 9/16/20 | Department of War | Document | 9/9 | Mentioned | This is a USCENTCOM mission report (MOR 26-0019, Misrep 4782130), declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on 22 January 2026 and approved for release to AARO, for an aircraft that took off from OKAS at 2302Z on 15 September 2020 and landed t… |
| DOW-UAP-D064 | 11/2/20 | Department of War | Document | 7/7 | Mentioned | USCENTCOM mission report (MDR 26-0028, Misrep 5039166) from 482 ATKS (432 AEW), declassified on 16 March 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, and marked FOUO / Privacy Act applies and approved for release to AARO. The s… |
| DOW-UAP-D065 | 7/16/20 | Department of War | Document | 8/8 | Official | This 8-page USCENTCOM mission report (Misrep 4472514), declassified on 16 March 2026, covers a single-aircraft AREC (ISR) sortie from OKAS that took off at 0443Z on 16 July 2020 and landed at 0200Z on 17 July 2020. The landing section gives… |
| DOW-UAP-D003 | N/A | Department of War | Document | 7/7 | Mentioned | This is a U.S. Department of War (formerly DoD) UAP Mission Report (MISREP), classified SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY, declassified with a 2048 declassification date, released as document D-3 in the Arabian Gulf 2020 case series. It is a standar… |
| DOW-UAP-D004 | N/A | Department of War | Document | 5/5 | Mentioned | U.S. Department of War UAP Mission Report, document D-4 in the Arabian Gulf 2020 case series, classified SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY. This is a very short, heavily redacted 5-page mission report form; the first four pages contain almost no unr… |
| DOW-UAP-D005 | N/A | Department of War | Document | 6/6 | Mentioned | U.S. Department of War UAP Mission Report, document D-5 in the Arabian Gulf 2020 case series, classified SECRET//REL. Like related documents in this series, this 6-page report is heavily redacted under exemption 1.4(a) (classified national… |
| DOW-UAP-D006 | N/A | Department of War | Document | 7/7 | Mentioned | U.S. Department of War UAP Mission Report, document D-6 in the Arabian Gulf 2020 case series, classified SECRET//REL. This is a 7-page report, heavily redacted under exemption 1.4(a) (classified national security information); pages 1-6 con… |
| DOW-UAP-D007 | N/A | Department of War | Document | 1/6 | Mentioned | This U.S. Department of War UAP mission report (D-7, Arabian Gulf, 2020) is six pages long. Pages 1-5 are fully redacted under exemption 1.4(a). The only legible text is on page 6: the UAP description reads "looks like a balloon, similar to… |
| DOW-UAP-PR037 | N/A | Department of War | Video | — | Official | Grayscale infrared sensor footage over open water, with a cyan crosshair, corner tracking brackets, and an 'N' north-indicator in the HUD. A small dark, elongated vessel is visible mid-frame with a lighter wake trailing behind it across the… |
| DOW-UAP-PR039 | N/A | Department of War | Video | — | Official | The single available frame is an overhead grayscale infrared image of a coastal compound, showing rooftops, what appears to be a dock or pier extending into water, and a network of roads or paths connecting structures. A red triangular mark… |
| DOW-UAP-PR040 | N/A | Department of War | Video | — | Official | Grayscale infrared sensor footage showing an expansive cloud field with a cyan tracking reticle, corner brackets, and a letter-N marker centered on the frame, plus black redaction boxes along the edges. In these two frames the view is fille… |
| DOW-UAP-PR041 | N/A | Department of War | Video | — | Official | Grayscale infrared frame showing a low horizon with a dark, diffuse cloud- or smoke-like shape spanning the upper-middle portion of frame above a lighter, grainy ground area. A cyan tracking crosshair sits at center with a faint white horiz… |
| DOW-UAP-PR042 | N/A | Department of War | Video | — | Official | Grainy black-and-white infrared sensor footage shows a mostly flat grey field with a large soft-edged bright triangular or wedge-shaped area of contrast occupying the lower-left portion of the frame, resembling a heat bloom, plume, or lens… |
| DOW-UAP-PR044 | N/A | Department of War | Video | — | Official | Black-and-white sensor footage showing an unusual dark, vignette-like circular field bordered by a bright, grainy edge, with a teal crosshair reticle and a red 'N' north-pointing arrowhead. The first frame shows a small elongated bright obj… |
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