Mission Report, Middle East, 2025
- Date
- 29 Jul 2025
- Place
- Middle East
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
A heavily redacted U.S. Air Force Mission Report under Operation Inherent Resolve describing six small spherical objects, grouped together, observed on 29 July 2025 at an altitude of FL220 and estimated kinetic velocity of 480 mph; the structured 'UAP' data block explicitly flags the objects' anomalous characteristic as being able to change direction quickly and simultaneously, and records the UAP followed 'of its own accord' until lost from view, with no observer engagement or interrogation attempted.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- Department of War
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- No: 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
- Yes: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- No: Light only
- Yes: Orb or sphere
- No: 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 sensor and single platform, but the reporting unit itself flagged simultaneous, coordinated direction changes across six discrete objects as an anomalous characteristic in the structured data (not just prose description), which is a higher bar than an unstructured narrative; still limited by lack of a second sensor or platform to corroborate the formation behavior.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- 1 sensor operator, rank SSgt/E5 (name redacted)
- Sensors
- Infrared/FMV sensor (single platform)
- Shape
- Six small spherical objects grouped together
- Size
- Small
- Motion
- Seemed agile, frequently changing direction; kinetic velocity estimated at 480 mph
- Duration
- Initial contact 292022:32Z JUL25
- Altitude or range
- Friendly aircraft at FL220
- Effects
- UAP Effects on Persons: NO; no advanced capabilities/materials checked ('NO')
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-D108, Mission Report, Middle East, 2025
Open the original on war.govDOW-UAP-PR135, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025
1 minute of infrared video from a U.S. military platform over the Middle East (CENTCOM submission, 2025), paired with mission report DOW-UAP-D108. The report describes six small spherical objects grouped together, 'seemed to be agile, frequently changing direction,' estimated at 480 MPH, observed while the aircraft transited to a target on 29-30 July 2025.
Open the original on dvidshub.net
What the file claims
- Unverified
The unit's own structured reporting fields flag the object group as able to change direction quickly and simultaneously, and describe it as six small spherical objects grouped together.
- Unverified
The report explicitly states the objects were not intentionally engaged or interrogated by the observing aircraft and followed of their own accord until lost from sight.
On the map
29.00° N, 45.00° E, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record
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