Disclosed

Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States, 2020

Date
2020
Place
Eastern United States
Record
Pentagon file
Assessment
Not assessed
Evidence strength
467 case pages by decade; this one falls in 2020s with 169 othersAll cases

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

Evidence profile

Sensors2 of 9 · multi-sensor
  • Yes: Visual
  • Yes: Infrared
  • No: Radar
  • No: Video
  • No: Photo
  • No: Film
  • No: Audio
  • No: Night vision
  • No: Other sensor
Witnesses1 counted
  • 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
ShapeDisc
  • No: Light only
  • No: Orb or sphere
  • Yes: Disc
  • No: Triangle
  • No: Cylinder
  • No: Cube
  • No: Other shape
Effectsnone reported
  • 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

2
  • DocumentDOW-UAP-D089Release 4

    DOW-UAP-D089, Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States, 2020

    Open the original on war.gov
  • VideoDOW-UAP-PR106Release 4

    DOW-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

1
  • 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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