THE DOCUMENTS
DOW-UAP-D107 and DOW-UAP-D108, both released as “Mission Report Middle East 2025”, two Department of War records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 06, published at war.gov/ufo on 18 September 2026, briefed with DOW-UAP-PR133 and DOW-UAP-PR135, two video records in the same release, both titled “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025”. The report title is the release’s, taken from the file names, and is the same for both, so this briefing keeps the two apart by ID throughout; the clip title is the DVIDS title. Neither report carries a title of its own: each opens on its report number, Misrep prod-dod-11937169 on DOW-UAP-D107 and Misrep prod-dod-11604218 on DOW-UAP-D108. Each is an eight-page mission report form, born digital rather than scanned. Every page of both carries the banner SECRET//NOFORN struck through, UNCLASSIFIED above it at the head and below it at the foot, DECLASSIFIED at top left and bottom left, and at top right a block naming MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, dated 20260608 on DOW-UAP-D107 and 20260710 on DOW-UAP-D108. The redactions are black boxes with an exemption label printed on them in red: (b) (1) (B) over most withheld fields, (b) (6) over names, email addresses, telephone numbers, some unit, wing and operations-centre fields and D108’s third-party observers field, and one box at the foot of every page labelled 3.5C. (B)(6). D108 also prints DATA MASKED in place of values in its text (pp. 1, 5). Neither report carries an AARO stamp or a release footer. DOW-UAP-PR133 is the asset DOD_111985772.mp4, DVIDS video 1023396, length 00:04:58 by DVIDS; DOW-UAP-PR135 is DOD_111985782.mp4, DVIDS video 1023397, 00:00:59. Each clip’s official description names its report; neither report names its clip.
Why this one is worth your time
Release 05 Briefing 3 read four Central Command clips from the Middle East, two of them from 2025, that came with no written record, and listed PR133 and PR135 among the eighteen record numbers between PR117 and PR149 that Release 05 did not contain. Release 06 publishes both, each with the mission report its official description names: PR133 with D107, PR135 with D108.
The pairing runs one way. Each description names its report and quotes it for what the objects looked like; PR133 quotes its speed as well, and PR135 gives 480 miles per hour as the reporter’s estimate; neither report names a clip, a video file or a DVIDS number. So what a reader meets on DVIDS, a white round orbit moving as fast as 500 miles per hour and six small spherical objects at 480, comes from the reports, and the clips’ own timed entries add no count, size figure or speed.
The reports also show the structured UAP block these two reports carry, with fields from physical state and propulsion to radio frequency, effects on persons and the observer’s assessment, filled in twice, on two missions three months apart, answering, leaving empty and withholding different things.
What the documents say
Two reports under one title. D107 and D108 report separate missions, with different report numbers and a different originating squadron, wing and major command, printed in clear on p. 2 of each and not reproduced here. Both name USCENTCOM as combatant command (p. 2). D107’s mission ran from 1953Z on 28 October 2025 to 1615Z on 29 October; D108’s from 1734Z on 29 July 2025 to 1426Z on 30 July (take-off and last engine shutdown, p. 4 of each).
D107: one object, a white round orbit. Of the eleven entries in the mission narrative on p. 1, the fifth, at 0141Z on 29 October, says only “OBSERVED UAP IVO” between two redactions, and points to the UAP block; it is the one entry marked (SECRET//NOFORN) where the other ten read (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY). The UAP block (pp. 6 to 8) gives the event type as “UAP Incident”, the manoeuvre entry as fast moving speeds up to 500 mph, the physical state as “Solid” and effects on persons as NO. Its free-text description, printed twice on p. 8, runs from 0141Z to 0150Z: a withheld party observed a UAP on feed while on target, a withheld party stated it looked like a white round orbit, it was tracked (the rest of that clause is withheld), observed moving as fast as 500 mph, and lost IVO a withheld place. The second copy, in a field of its own, repeats the visible text of the first except for a single character of that place before the last box, and adds the closing line below.
D108: six small spheres. D108’s narrative puts the sighting, “OBSERVED AN UAP”, at 2022Z on 29 July (p. 1). The UAP block gives first contact to the second, 2022:32Z (p. 6), about two hours and thirteen minutes before the time on station in the ISR block, 2236Z (p. 4; the On Station block’s own time is withheld, p. 6; the interval is this briefing’s arithmetic). The description field reads 6X small spherical objects grouped together; the manoeuvre field, seemed to be agile, frequently changing direction, the report spelling it CHNAGING (p. 6); the anomalous characteristics field, able to change directions quickly and simultaneously; the kinetic velocity field, an estimate printed 48OMPH, its third character a capital letter O in the text layer and on the page image (p. 7). Other fields read UNKNOWN for propulsion, intelligent control and radio frequency, NO for advanced capabilities, material recovered and effects on persons, and NONE for effects on equipment; the signatures field is withheld (pp. 6 to 7). The reaction field reads NONE and then “FOLLOWED OF OWN ACCORD UNTIL LIST. REPORTED AFTERWARDS”, without saying what LIST means. An estimated altitude and direction of travel for the objects are printed in clear, as are the aircraft’s direction and speed, while its own altitude and location are withheld (pp. 6 to 7), whereas D107 prints its aircraft’s altitude (p. 6); this briefing reproduces none of these values. The event description opens on a withheld party performing scans on the ground while transiting to target, en route to support something withheld, and runs into a small box with a clipped label and two long black bars with no visible label (pp. 7 to 8); it does not say at which point the objects were seen.
What the descriptions take from the reports. The PR133 description opens with Central Command submitting to AARO a report of 4 minutes and 58 seconds of footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, then quotes D107 (blocks below). Its quotation joins two phrases of D107’s free text with an ellipsis, passing over “TRACKED FOR”, a redaction and “OBSERVED UAP” (p. 8). The PR135 description quotes D108 for six small spherical objects grouped together, “seem[ingly] agile,” and “frequently changing direction”, spelling correctly the word the report misspells, and says the reporter estimated the speed at 480 miles per hour. Neither description’s timed entries give a count, a size figure or a speed: PR133’s follow “an area of contrast” through changes of magnification, a “focus box” and an auto-tracking reticle that does not establish a lock; PR135’s have “Several areas of contrast” crossing the field of view from 00:05 to 00:10 and tracked to 00:47. Both close by telling readers not to take them as an analytical judgement, investigative conclusion or factual determination.
What the frames show. Read from the frames, not from any text: both clips are greyscale, open on a burned-in caption about the postponement of public disclosure that is gone by 00:05, and carry black boxes with no label at the corners and edges of the picture, six in PR133 and seven in PR135. No date, time, place or readout survives outside them. PR133 adds a small box beside the aim point at 02:31 to 02:35 and 04:08 to 04:41, and a large one over the top right quarter for three seconds from 04:53. PR135 shows a tall lattice structure on a low flat base for its first eleven seconds, 00:00 to 00:10, the first five of which its description logs as “No content.” (block below); from 00:12 to 00:46 a loose group of small bright points crosses the frame. The frames do not show what the structure is or what it stands on; this briefing does not count the points.
What the documents do not say
Neither report names a clip. The field for an FMV or image file name holds a hyphen in D107 and nothing in D108 (p. 5 of each); D107 says only that full motion video was exploited by a withheld party (p. 1), and D108 that FMV collection was performed and that FMV was exploited by GET, an abbreviation it never expands (pp. 1, 5). Record and asset numbers and DVIDS return no hits in either. The pairing is the descriptions’ statement alone; nothing on the frames ties either clip to a report, a date or a place.
Nothing in either report’s visible text identifies the objects. The observer assessment field is covered by a (b) (1) (B) box in both (D107 p. 7, D108 p. 6), where empty fields on the same pages print a hyphen or nothing. The number of UAP sighted is left empty in both (D107 p. 7, D108 p. 6), although D107’s text says a UAP and D108’s six. Unidentified, unresolved, UFO and AARO return no hits in either report, and anomalous one in each, as a field label (p. 7). D107 gives no size for its object, and its kinetic altitude, velocity and trajectory fields hold a hyphen beside accuracy entries that read Estimated (p. 7); D108’s only word of size is SMALL, and it names no colour.
Neither report gives a location for the mission or the sighting. Middle East returns no hits in either, and every location, coordinate and target field is withheld or left without a value; the region is the release titles’, and the DVIDS location field of both clips reads (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION). Neither of D107’s two pointers to attachments, a 7-line and a target log and post mission product (p. 5), is in the release. Neither description mentions the black boxes or the caption.
The year. The first sentence of the PR133 description ends in 2024 (block below); whether the year dates the footage or the submission, the sentence does not settle. Its DVIDS title, its Date Taken field, 01.01.2025, and its VIRIN, 250101-D-D0360-5891, say 2025, and D107, the report it cites, dates every event it times to October 2025, writing the year in full at the head of both copies of the free text, 290141:00ZOCT2025 (p. 8). The descriptions file flags the discrepancy; nothing in the release explains it, and this briefing does not decide it. The PR135 description’s 2025 agrees with D108’s dates. Neither clip’s Date Taken, 01.01.2025, is either report’s date.
From the record
WHILE ON TGT, (b) (1) (B) STATED IT LOOKED LIKE A WHITE ROUND ORBIT, TRACKED
DOW-UAP-D107, p. 8, the first of the two copies of the UAP description, which opens at 0141Z; the quoted line opens mid-sentence, the sentence having begun on the line above with the observation times, and past FOR and a redaction it continues: OBSERVED UAP MOVING AS FAST AS 500MPH
THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED AT THIS TIME.
DOW-UAP-D107, p. 8, the last line of the report, a complete sentence closing the second copy of the UAP description
• UAP Description (e.g., size, shape, color, markings, recognizable features): 6X SMALL
DOW-UAP-D108, p. 7, the description field of the UAP block; the entry continues: SPHERICAL OBJECTS GROUPED TOGETHER
• UAP Anomalous Characteristics/ Behaviors: ABLE TO CHANGE DIRECTIONS QUICKLY AND
DOW-UAP-D108, p. 7, a field that in DOW-UAP-D107 holds a hyphen; the entry continues: SIMULTANEOUSLY
• Kinetic Velocity: 48OMPH
DOW-UAP-D108, p. 7, the whole field, below an accuracy line that reads Estimated; the third character is a capital letter O on the page image as in the text layer, and the DOW-UAP-PR135 description gives the figure as 480 miles per hour
An accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D107, described the UAP as “look[ing] like a white round orbit… moving as fast as 500 miles per hour.”
DOW-UAP-PR133, the official description, the second sentence of its opening paragraph, whole
consisting of 4 minutes and 58 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2024.
DOW-UAP-PR133, the official description, the close of its first sentence; the sentence begins: The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
00:00-00:04: No content.
DOW-UAP-PR135, the official description, the first timed entry, covering five of the eleven opening seconds in which the frames show the lattice structure, a reading from the frames
Where the case connects
Release 05 Briefing 3 read DOW-UAP-PR134 and DOW-UAP-PR142, two Central Command clips from the Middle East in 2025, with two from 2023, none with a written record. The two now published sit either side of DOW-UAP-PR134 in the numbering and use the same formula, footage from a sensor “aboard a U.S. military platform”.
Release 05 Briefing 1 read a record of the same shape: DOW-UAP-D101, an intelligence report from the Gulf of Oman declassified by the USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, released with six clips whose descriptions each name it and quote its words for the objects. Those descriptions named the aircraft and called the footage a secondary capture on a cellular device; the two here name neither a platform type nor a method of capture.
Release 06 Briefing 6 covers the 2022 reports from the same command, DOW-UAP-D106 and DOW-UAP-D109, with the stills DOW-UAP-PR130 and DOW-UAP-PR131 and the clips DOW-UAP-PR140 and DOW-UAP-PR141, whose descriptions both name D109. Those two reports log their objects in an observation block and carry none of the UAP fields used here: physical state, number of UAP and anomalous return no hits in either.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-D107 and DOW-UAP-D108, both released as “Mission Report Middle East 2025”, and DOW-UAP-PR133 and DOW-UAP-PR135, both “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025”, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 06, and the two clips are on DVIDS at dvidshub.net, video IDs 1023396 and 1023397. In each report the mission narrative is page 1 of the PDF and the UAP block pages 6 to 8.
Read the files. Decide for yourself.
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References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-D107, “Mission Report Middle East 2025”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D108, “Mission Report Middle East 2025”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR133, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023396
- DOW-UAP-PR135, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023397
- 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 06 Briefing 6, on DOW-UAP-D106 and DOW-UAP-D109, the 2022 mission reports from the same command, with their stills and clips
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 3, on four Central Command clips from the Middle East with no written record
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 1, on DOW-UAP-D101, the Gulf of Oman report and the six clips whose descriptions name it