Range Fouler Debrief, NA, October 2020
- Date
- 27 Oct 2020
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Range Fouler Debrief: after 'KINGPIN' (a controller) directed identification of an unknown contact, the crew obtained radar lock and targeting-pod video but could not close closer than 16.9 NM. The targeting pod showed 2 infrared-significant contacts; one range fouler circled the other before both disappeared within 1/30th of a second. Tally was achieved as '2x red blinking strobes,' and the crew simultaneously received noise jamming (indicated by two chevrons on their display). Form checkboxes mark the objects as balloon-shaped, metallic, and reflective.
What officials concluded
Unresolved
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- Department of War
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- No: Visual
- No: Infrared
- Yes: Radar
- Yes: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- Yes: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- Yes: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating This is the one Range Fouler form in the batch with more than one instrument (radar lock plus targeting-pod video) simultaneously on the same contact, and it co-occurs with a recorded electronic-warfare jamming event -- a combination worth further scrutiny -- but the form's own checkboxes describe the objects as balloon-shaped, metallic and reflective (i.e. a mundane physical description), and an instantaneous disappearance 'within 1/30th of a second' is more consistent with a sensor dropout or handoff than a physical vanishing.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- One aircrew (11th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron)
- Sensors
- Radar (locked), targeting pod (video)
- Shape
- Balloon-shaped (per form checkbox)
- Lights and colour
- 2x red blinking strobes
- Motion
- One circled the other, then both vanished within 1/30th of a second
- Duration
- Not quantified
- Altitude or range
- 26,000 ft (contact altitude field)
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-D058, Range Fouler Debrief, NA, October 2020
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What the file claims
- Unverified
The crew obtained a radar lock and targeting-pod video on two IR-significant contacts, one circling the other, both of which vanished within 1/30th of a second; the crew simultaneously received noise jamming.