A "possible small UAP" off the Syrian coast on a night of Russian air activity (30 May 2022)
A 50th Attack Squadron ISR aircraft was collecting imagery over the eastern Mediterranean off Syria. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, at FL240, it saw "one possible small UAP" flying north to north-east. The crew followed it as long as possible, and the screener could not identify it. The same report logs Russian activity: at 2147Z the evening before, 1-3 aircraft including a possible Russian Su-30 came within about 5 nm and flew under the orbit. It also logs Su-27/35 movements at a nearby airfield. The report does not connect the UAP to any of this activity. DOW-UAP-PR21 is a byte-identical copy of the PDF. The wording of the UAP entry is the same as D12, ten days earlier. *Method note: war.gov blocks this server. Each mission report was read from the original PDF served by the ufotransparency.com mirror. Quotations come from the PDF text layer and were checked against the page images where the scan is poor. Redactions are shown as [redacted]. Field names such as "Observer Assessment of UAP" are the form's own labels.*
How plausible · High
An ISR crew followed a possible small UAP on sensor; the imagery screener could not identify it.
- ●●Access The ISR crew tracked it on their own sensor.
- ●●No gain sought An official reporting form.
- ●●Checkable details check out Released in PURSUE.
- ●●Physical traces or official reaction Sensor track with video confirmed.
- ●○Restraint Describes motion and signature, no explanation.
- ●○Character record An official report; crew names withheld.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- "AT 0117Z, ONE POSSIBLE SMALL UAP WAS OBSERVED. SEE UAP LINE 1." (DOW-UAP-D14, p. 1; OCR slips in the text layer corrected)
- "OBSERVED A UAP AT 0117Z FLY NORTH TO NORTH EAST AND FOLLOWED AS LONG AS POSSIBLE." (DOW-UAP-D14, p. 8)
- "SCREENER COULD NOT GET A POSITIVE ID ON THE UAP." (DOW-UAP-D14, p. 8)
- UAP block: Initial Contact DTG 300117:00ZMAY22; friendly aircraft at FL240, 142 KIAS; number of UAP 1; "UAP Signatures: No"; altitude/velocity "-". (DOW-UAP-D14, p. 8)
- "AT 2147Z, [redacted] WAS REACTED TO BY 1-3 ACFT, INCLUDING 1X POSS RFAF SU-30, THAT GOT APPROXIMATELY 5NM FROM" (DOW-UAP-D14, p. 8; OCR slips in the text layer corrected) (the narrative continues that the aircraft flew under the orbit for about 2 minutes, south for about 10 nm, then returned west, with no mission impact)
- Narrative also logs "ONE PROBABLE SU-27/35 LANDING IVO AL ASSAD AFLD" at 0011Z, IMINT for "OP HUMMER SICKLE" in the "EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN", and landing at "LRCT". (DOW-UAP-D14, p. 1)
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Sources
- war.gov/ufo, PURSUE Release 01 listing (8 May 2026; not reachable from this server)
- Mirror file list for Release 01 (ufotransparency.com)
- DOW-UAP-D14 (war.gov), mirror page with the official description
- DOW-UAP-D14 original file, via mirror
- DOW-UAP-PR21 (war.gov), mirror page with the official description
- DOW-UAP-PR21 original file, via mirror