Unresolved UAP Report, Syria, October 2024
- Date
- 20 Oct 2024
- Place
- Syria (37S grid, AFSOC AC-130 gunship platform)
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Five seconds of FMV video, one of three released clips (with PR032, PR033) from a single AFSOC AC-130 UAP event on mission report DOW-UAP-D032. The mission report's own structured fields describe a 'misshapen and uneven ball of white light' and a 'light/glare halo effect' at the top of the feed, categorize the object's physical state as 'Plasma', and record the aircrew's explicit judgment that it was NOT a lasing event; overall assessed benign with no mission impact.
What officials concluded
Tentative explanation
Aircrew categorized the object's physical state as 'Plasma', explicitly assessed it as benign light/glare, and stated their own judgment that it was not a laser illumination event; no persistent tracked object, only recurring light/glare…
- 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
- No: 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 FMV sensor; the source document itself describes recurring light/glare crossing the camera rather than a persistently tracked solid object, categorizes the physical state as 'Plasma' (i.e. a light/energy phenomenon, not a craft), and the aircrew's own account is consistent with a lens flare, glare, or similar optical/sensor artifact, explicitly considered and distinguished only from lasing, not from mundane glare.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- One AFSOC AC-130 aircrew (12 SOS), unnamed, redacted
- Sensors
- FMV camera (single sensor)
- Shape
- Misshapen and uneven ball of white light; light/glare halo effect at top of frame
- Lights and colour
- White light, light/glare
- Motion
- No maneuverability observed
- Duration
- Light/glare events recurred at 1559Z, 1602Z, 1620Z, 1644Z over an 85-minute window; this clip 5 seconds
- Altitude or range
- Aircraft at 20,088 ft, orbiting, 144 knots
- Effects
- UAP Effects on Persons: NO; UAP Effects on Equipment: not stated as impacting
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR031, Unresolved UAP Report, Syria, October 2024
Open the original on war.gov
What the file claims
- Unverified
The mission report categorizes the UAP's physical state as 'Plasma' and describes it as a misshapen, uneven ball of white light with a light/glare halo at the top of the FMV feed.
- Unverified
The aircrew explicitly considered and ruled out that the glare was a laser illumination (lasing) event, and judged the encounter to have no mission impact.
On the map
35.00° N, 38.00° E, plotted at the centre of the country
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