A UAP event lasting under a minute over Syria (31 July 2022)
An 89th Attack Squadron ISR aircraft flying for Operation Inherent Resolve at 19,359 ft and 116 knots logged a UAP event at 0239Z on 31 July 2022. The event lasted less than a minute, and the object moved north to south. No shape, size or signature is recorded ("UAP Signatures: No"). DOW-UAP-PR22 is a byte-identical copy of the PDF. No explanation is given. *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 · Moderate
An ISR crew logged a sub-minute UAP event moving north to south.
- ●●Access The ISR crew tracked it on their own sensor.
- ●●No gain sought An official reporting form.
- ●●Checkable details check out Released in PURSUE.
- ●○Restraint Describes motion and signature, no explanation.
- ●○Character record An official report; crew names withheld.
- ●○Fits the documented skeleton Part of the documented Range Fouler and PURSUE record.
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
- "OBSERVED AN UAP EVENT IVO 37SFU2" (DOW-UAP-D16, p. 7; OCR slips in the text layer corrected)
- "THE UAP OCCURED IN LESS THAN A MINUTE, WITH THE UAP MOVING FROM N TO S." (DOW-UAP-D16, p. 7)
- UAP block: Initial Contact DTG 310239:00ZJUL22; friendly aircraft 19,359 FT, 116 KTS; "UAP Signatures: No"; altitude, velocity and trajectory "-". (DOW-UAP-D16, p. 7)
- Originator "89 ATKS"; Operation INHERENT RESOLVE; declassification date field 20470731; declassified 8 October 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison. (DOW-UAP-D16, pp. 1-2)Glare and a "misshapen ball of white light" cross an ISR camera over Syria (20 October 2024)Two range foulers circle each other, vanish "in 1/30th of a second", with strobes and noise jamming (27 October 2020)
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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-D16 (war.gov), mirror page with the official description
- DOW-UAP-D16 original file, via mirror
- DOW-UAP-PR22 (war.gov), mirror page with the official description
- DOW-UAP-PR22 original file, via mirror