Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States, 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Place
- Eastern United States
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
A standardized U.S. Navy 'Range Fouler' debrief form documenting an unauthorized-airspace-intrusion sighting during active training in 2020, paired with video DOW-UAP-PR106 (not in this batch). The reporting aircrew member's name, unit and most checkbox answers are redacted; the narrative field describes a small object of indiscernible shape with a reflective underside that continued in a constant direction at an unstated speed.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- Department of War
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- Yes: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: 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
- Yes: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating Single witness, single (visual) sensor in this file, minimal descriptive detail, most identifying and quantitative fields redacted; nothing in the surviving text exceeds what a conventional small aircraft, balloon, or drone could produce.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- 1 U.S. Navy aircrew member (rank/name redacted)
- Sensors
- Visual, onboard display/recording (per form instructions, though redacted here)
- Shape
- Indiscernible
- Size
- Small ('quite small')
- Motion
- Continued in a constant direction; specific speed value redacted
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-D089, Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States, 2020
Open the original on war.govDOW-UAP-PR106, Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020
Video released by AARO under the PURSUE program (release 4), uploader-titled "Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020". AARO attributes the footage to an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2020. An accompanying Range Fouler Debrief, DOW-UAP-D089, describes the phenomenon as “quite small” and as “continu[ing] in a constant direction.” The report characterizes the shape of the phenomenon as “indistinguishable,” with a metallic appearance and reflective underside. The blurb's shot-by-shot description records an unresolved sensor track of an "area of contrast" over 11 seconds of footage, with panning, zooming and mode changes but no resolved shape, size or performance data. AARO notes the media was digitally altered before it entered the record and is presented as received.
Open the original on dvidshub.net
What the file claims
- Unverified
The reporting aircrew member describes the object as small, moving in a constant direction, with an indiscernible shape and a reflective underside.
On the map
39.00° N, 78.00° W, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record
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