THE DOCUMENTS
DOW-UAP-D106, “Mission Report Iraq 2022”, DOW-UAP-D109, “Mission Report Middle East 2022”, DOW-UAP-PR130 and DOW-UAP-PR131, each “Unresolved UAP Report Iraq 2022”, and DOW-UAP-PR140 and DOW-UAP-PR141, each “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2022”, six Department of War records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 06, published at war.gov/ufo on 18 September 2026. The PDF titles are the release’s, taken from the file names, and the clip titles are DVIDS’s; none of the six has a title of its own, and the two reports open on their numbers, Misrep 7468013 and Misrep 7467030, in that order. The reports are six pages each on the same mission-report form. DOW-UAP-D106 is six page images with an OCR text layer, its redactions white boxes printed 1.4a, 1.4g or both, or 3.5c, (b)(6) and solid red bars printed with nothing; an orange block on every page records declassification by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 30 June 2026, and a footer reads USCENTCOM MDR 26-0084 to 26-0095, Approved for Release to AARO - FOUO / PA applies, 06/30/26, with a sequence number running 031 to 036. DOW-UAP-D109 is born digital, with black boxes carrying red labels such as (b) (1) (B), a struck-through banner, a marking reading DECLASSIFED and the same officer’s declassification dated 20260710, and no MDR number, sequence number or AARO stamp. DOW-UAP-PR130 and DOW-UAP-PR131 are one-page PDFs, each a greyscale picture set on a letter-size page, with no words of its own, white boxes printed 1.4a, 1.4g, the orange block and the release footer, numbered 029 and 030. DOW-UAP-PR140 and DOW-UAP-PR141 are clips whose redactions are black boxes printed with nothing; the Department’s official descriptions are the source for every account here of what they show; the redactions and the caption are read from the frames.
Why this one is worth your time
Release 05 Briefing 1 read a report that arrived with clips whose official descriptions named it. This set shows that tie and two others at once. PR140 and PR141 are tied to D109 the same way, by descriptions that name it and quote its speed range. PR130 and PR131 are tied to D106 only by what the release did to all three: its footer numbering, its markings, and the country and year in its titles. No clip description names D106 at all.
The two reports are the other reason. They come from different squadrons, and each logs objects seen on 5 May 2022. Of the five sentences in D106’s account of its sighting, three recur word for word in D109’s and the other two follow the same pattern with different details, and neither report mentions the other.
What the documents say
Two sorties, one form. Both reports are mission reports under the same named operation, operations centre and combatant command, USCENTCOM (D106 p. 1; D109 p. 1), from different originating squadrons under different major commands (D106 p. 1; D109 pp. 1 and 2). D109’s aircraft took off at 2149Z on 4 May 2022 and landed at 1924Z on 5 May (pp. 4 and 5); D106’s took off at 0614Z on 5 May and landed at 0039Z on 6 May (p. 4). By that arithmetic, which is this briefing’s, both were airborne from 0614Z to 1924Z on 5 May. By the same arithmetic, D106’s logged sighting at 2026Z comes about an hour after D109’s aircraft landed, and D109’s window opened at 0524Z, 50 minutes before D106’s aircraft took off.
D106. At 2026Z on 5 May, by the narrative (p. 1) and the observation block’s date-time group (p. 6), a subject in a box was scanning a POI and periodically observed “UAPS FLYING SPORATICALLY” within a target area. According to a source the page puts mostly inside a box printed 1.4a, 1.4g, the objects were travelling at various speeds between 80 and 180 mph; altitude, the report says, could not be determined; they were approximately one to two metres in size; and they did not hinder the mission. The same passage is the free text of the observation block (p. 6), without the cross-reference (SEE OBS 1) that follows it on p. 1. That block gives the method of observation as FMV and, in a field of its own, calls the observed activity “UAS”, an abbreviation the report does not expand, where both copies of the passage say UAPs. It also prints the aircraft’s heading, altitude and airspeed, a range and part of its position in clear; this briefing does not reproduce them. The narrative’s last line names who exploited the FMV (p. 1); the field for an FMV or image file name is blank (p. 5).
D109. The narrative’s entry for 0524Z logs “PROB UAPS TRAVELING SW AT ROUGHLY 80-180 MPH”, with a small black box between OBSERVED and those words (p. 1). The observation block is dated 0524Z on 5 May, and its free text runs “FROM 0524Z-0704Z” (p. 6): a boxed subject was scanning various POIs and periodically observed UAPS flying SPORATICALLY within the target area and in the NE portion of something boxed; then come the speed, altitude and size; then a sentence D106 does not have, that during the observation period a boxed subject would reacquire the UAPs after returning the sensor to the original POI locations; then that the UAPs did not hinder the mission, and a last line, “WSV IS ATTACHED BELOW”. WSV is not expanded, and the file ends a few lines later with nothing attached. The weather entry says that dust storms affected some collection on UAPS between 0524Z and 0704Z, the same times as the window (p. 5). The observation block holds a bare hyphen for the aircraft’s heading, altitude and airspeed and for a range, and boxes the aircraft’s location and the observed activity’s location and description (p. 6). D109 gives no location for the aircraft, the target or the objects.
The same sentences. Set side by side, the two free texts on p. 6 of each report run the same way. A boxed subject is scanning POIs and “PERIODICALLY OBSERVED” UAPS FLYING SPORATICALLY WITHIN THE TARGET AREA, D109 with a small box after OBSERVED; a speed sentence opens ACCORDING TO THE and a boxed source and goes on identically in both, “THE UAPs WERE TRAVELLING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS BETWEEN 80-180 MPH”; and three sentences are worded identically in both: “WE WERE UNABLE TO DETERMINE ALTITUDE”, the size sentence with its “1-2 METERS”, and “THE UAPs DID NOT HINDER THE MISSION”. The spelling SPORATICALLY is on both, and on D106’s page images at pp. 1 and 6, so it is not an artefact of D106’s OCR. Among what D109 has and D106 does not are the window of 0524Z to 0704Z, the reacquisition sentence and the WSV line.
The stills. PR130 and PR131 carry no words of their own. Each is a greyscale picture with a crosshair, four corner brackets and a letter N drawn over it. PR130 has, beside the crosshair, a small dark patch framed on three corners by small brackets with a white box over the fourth, and a short dark streak near the lower left bracket; PR131 has a small dark patch just above the crosshair and a larger, elongated dark mark towards the upper right. All of this is read from the page images. Their footers number them 029 and 030 and carry the date 06/30/26, and D106’s six pages follow as 031 to 036 under the same date. PR131’s footer gives the same MDR range as D106’s; on PR130 the range is legible only as far as USCENTCOM MD. Both stills carry the orange declassification block, at the limit of legibility on PR130, and the Approved for Release to AARO stamp, and neither carries a classification banner. That the two stills belong with D106, as the first two sheets of one numbered set, is an inference from that numbering and that shared treatment. No page states it: neither still names D106, and D106 names no picture, attachment or file, its one use of the word image being the label of a blank field for an FMV or image file name (p. 5).
The clips. The official descriptions of PR140 and PR141 say that United States Central Command submitted to AARO a report consisting of video footage from a sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022: 1 minute 47 seconds from “an electro-optical and infrared sensor”, and 2 minutes 36 seconds from “an electro-optical (right) and infrared (left) sensor”. Each then names D109 as an accompanying mission report and says it described the UAP as “traveling at various speeds between 80-180 miles per hour”. That is the only figure about the objects that either description gives, and it is D109’s. The quoted words are not quite the page’s: D109 prints “TRAVELLING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS BETWEEN 80-180 MPH” (p. 6) and writes UAPs, plural, where the descriptions write the UAP. The rest of each description is a timed account: the sensor pans to track an area of contrast and switches between modes, areas of contrast enter and leave the field of view, and some spans are logged as No content. PR141 also records the sensor switching to display an infrared (left) and electro-optical (right) feed and, at 00:52 to 00:57, a second area of contrast. Each description ends by saying it is provided for informational purposes only and that no part of it should be read as an analytical judgement, investigative conclusion or factual determination about the event’s validity, nature or significance. In the frames, the redactions are solid black boxes with no code, and a caption burned into the opening seconds, gone by 00:05, says public disclosure of this information is postponed in accordance with 44 U.S.C. § 2107 Section 1843, UAP Postponement Code E.O. 13526, read from the frames.
The tie runs one way. The descriptions name D109; D109 names no clip and no file. Its field for an FMV or image file name holds a hyphen (p. 5), its one use of the word video is the line saying the full motion video was exploited by someone boxed (p. 1), and its WSV line points to nothing attached to the report.
What the documents do not say
Neither report names the other: D106’s report number returns no hit in D109, and D109’s none in D106. Neither gives a place that could be set against the other’s, since D109 boxes every location field or prints a bare hyphen in it, and D106 prints its grid references only in part. Neither carries a date of writing, the Submit Date field being blank in both (D106 p. 1; D109 p. 2), so neither shows which was written first. Whether the two describe one set of objects, two sets, or two crews using one wording, the records do not say.
Neither gives a count. D106 writes UAPS and UAPs and no number; in D109 a small black box follows OBSERVED on both pages that log the sighting; what it covers is not shown. Neither report describes a shape or a colour or offers an assessment, and neither says what the objects were beyond D106’s unexpanded UAS field. Unidentified and unresolved return no hits in either. The countries in the release titles are not in the documents: Iraq returns no hit in D106 and appears on neither still, and Middle East returns no hit in D109. AARO appears in D106 only in the release stamp at the foot of each page, and not at all in D109.
Beyond the 2026 release markings, neither still carries a date, a time, a place or a caption, and nothing on either says what it shows, when it was taken or which mission it belongs to. No Release 06 video description names D106, and no clip in the release is titled Iraq.
The two descriptions say nothing of each other or of the stills, and neither says the two clips show one event. Nothing legible in the frames beyond the caption gives a date, a time or a place.
From the record
UAPs WERE APPROXIMATELY 1-2 METERS. THE UAPs DID NOT HINDER THE MISSION.
DOW-UAP-D106, p. 6, the last line of the observation block’s free text, which repeats the narrative of p. 1; the line closes the sentence on size and holds the next whole, and the first of the two begins: THE SIZE OF THE
• Observed Activity Description: UAS
DOW-UAP-D106, p. 6, a field of the observation block, a few lines above the free text that calls the objects UAPs
PROB UAPS TRAVELING SW AT ROUGHLY 80-180 MPH. (SEE
DOW-UAP-D109, p. 1, the narrative’s entry for the sighting; the sentence begins: AT 0524Z, then a black box, OBSERVED and a smaller black box
, THE UAPs WERE TRAVELLING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS BETWEEN 80-180 MPH. WE WERE
DOW-UAP-D109, p. 6, the observation block’s free text, the line opening after the words ACCORDING TO THE and boxed text; the line closes that sentence and opens the next, which continues: UNABLE TO DETERMINE ALTITUDE.
METERS. DURING THE OBSERVATION PERIOD, (b) (1) (B) WOULD REACQUIRE THE UAPs AFTER
DOW-UAP-D109, p. 6, the same free text; the line closes the size sentence and opens the one D106 does not carry, which continues: RETURNING THE SENSOR BACK TO THE ORIGIONAL POI LOCATIONS.
HINDER THE MISSION. WSV IS ATTACHED BELOW
DOW-UAP-D109, p. 6, the last line of the free text and the only mention of an attachment in either report; the sentence it closes begins: THE UAPs DID NOT
from an electro-optical and infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. An accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D109, described the UAP as “traveling at various speeds between 80-180 miles per hour.”
DOW-UAP-PR140, the close of the first paragraph of the official description; the description of DOW-UAP-PR141 closes its first paragraph on the same sentence naming DOW-UAP-D109
00:28-00:52: The sensor switches to infrared mode, panning to track an area of contrast. 00:52-00:57: A second area of contrast briefly enters the sensor field-of-view.
DOW-UAP-PR141, two timed entries of the official description, which the description runs together on one line; the only second area of contrast in either description
Where the case connects
Release 05 Briefing 1 read DOW-UAP-D101, a Gulf of Oman report released with six clips whose descriptions name it, and recorded that it was declassified by the USCENTCOM Chief of Staff and stamped Approved for Release to AARO: the office and the stamp that D106 and the stills carry here. D109 and its two clips have that shape on a smaller scale, with two differences: the Release 05 report lists its videos as an attachment, where D109 names no clip; and the Release 05 descriptions said their clips were captured contemporaneously, where these two say nothing of each other.
Release 05 Briefing 3 read four CENTCOM clips described, as these two are, as footage from a sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, with no paper behind them, and listed PR128 to PR133 and PR137 to PR141 among the record numbers that release did not carry. PR130, PR131, PR140 and PR141 are four of those numbers, and two of the four are not video but one-page PDFs.
Release 06 Briefing 7 reads the two 2025 mission reports from the same combatant command, DOW-UAP-D107 and DOW-UAP-D108, each named in the description of one clip, DOW-UAP-PR133 and DOW-UAP-PR135.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-D106, “Mission Report Iraq 2022”, DOW-UAP-D109, “Mission Report Middle East 2022”, and DOW-UAP-PR130 and DOW-UAP-PR131, “Unresolved UAP Report Iraq 2022”, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 06, and DOW-UAP-PR140 and DOW-UAP-PR141, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2022”, there and on DVIDS at dvidshub.net, video IDs 1023398 and 1023400. In both reports the sighting is on page 1 of the PDF and again on page 6; D109’s weather entry is on page 5.
Read the files. Decide for yourself.
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References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-D106, “Mission Report Iraq 2022”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D109, “Mission Report Middle East 2022”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR130, “Unresolved UAP Report Iraq 2022”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR131, “Unresolved UAP Report Iraq 2022”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR140, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2022”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023398
- DOW-UAP-PR141, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2022”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023400
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- AARO UAP Records, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil/UAP-Records
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 1, on DOW-UAP-D101 and the six clips whose descriptions name it
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 3, on four CENTCOM clips and the record numbers Release 05 did not carry
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 7, on the 2025 mission reports DOW-UAP-D107 and DOW-UAP-D108