Middle East sensor reports

Case files (72)

• 2025CENTCOM EO/IR clip: contrast moving left to right (Middle East, 2025)
• 2025CENTCOM infrared clip: three-second crossing (Middle East, 2025)
• 2025Middle East, 29 July 2025: AFSOC crew reports six small spheres changing direction "simultaneously"
• 2025Middle East, 29 October 2025: ISR crew tracks a "white round orbit" at up to 500 mph
• 2025Two round, white-hot UAPs heading south at about 240 knots (war.gov "Djibouti, 2025")
• 2024A diamond-shaped UAP with a "probe", seen only in short-wave infrared, at about 434 knots (25 January 2024)
• 2024A glowing hot sphere with a vertical "pole" skims the Gulf of Oman at 140 knots (7 June 2024)
• 2024A hot object "flies" through the sensors during a Griffin missile shot near Ayn al-Asad (20 September 2024)
• 2024A low UAP outpaces the ISR aircraft following it over the Gulf of Aden (14 July 2024)
• 2024Glare and a "misshapen ball of white light" cross an ISR camera over Syria (20 October 2024)
• 2023"Several bright objects" above FL600 seen by a 77 EFS flight (31 March 2023)
• 2023A "bouncy ball"-shaped UAP keeps pace at about 424 knots for seven minutes (9 November 2023)
• 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: 30-second track, partly occluded by the platform (Middle East, 2023)
• 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: 51-second track (Middle East, 2023)
• 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: two bright contrasts and a reticle-tracked dark one (Middle East, 2023)
• 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: two contrasts cross in one second (Middle East, 2023)
• 2023F-15E pair sees three possible UAP and a possible balloon near Shaddadi, Syria (21 February 2023)
• 2023Two UAP, one "thermal showed cold", logged by an ISR aircraft from Al Dhafra (24 October 2023)
• 2022"Possible UAP/UAV" near Baghdad, not followed (1 December 2022)
• 2022A "possible small UAP" off the Syrian coast on a night of Russian air activity (30 May 2022)
• 2022A 21-second, slowed-down, altered clip of a "cigar shaped or fast spherical" UAP (15 October 2022)
• 2022A UAP event lasting under a minute over Syria (31 July 2022)
• 2022Five UAP cross an ISR feed over Iraq; one like a missile, four like birds (6 May 2022)
• 2022Four areas of contrast cross an infrared view over water: "4 UAP Formation Iran" (26 August 2022)
• 2022Four small contrasts among several tracked targets (13 June 2022)
• 2022Iraq, 5 May 2022: two ISR sorties report 1-2 m "UAPs" at 80-180 mph
• 2022Screener "could not get a positive ID": a UAP over Iraq, 20 May 2022
• 2021A contrast tracked near the top of the frame for a minute (3 January 2021)
• 2021Four clips of a "spherical UAP" from one platform on 12 April 2021
• 2020"3 fast moving UAPs": two contrasts share the frame for 15 seconds (29 October 2020)
• 2020"Dual UAP" over the Gulf of Arabia: one contrast resolves into several (5 May 2020)
• 2020"Looks like a balloon": a weapons-quality track on a UAP at 31,000 ft (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
• 2020"NAG UAP": a contrast tracked, lost and reacquired over the North Arabian Gulf (1 June 2020)
• 2020"U/I small thermal signature": an operator-annotated infrared track (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
• 2020A "formation of unknown flying objects" tracked along the coast for two minutes (27 August 2020)
• 2020A "spherical UAP" moving in and out of clouds over Afghanistan, replayed enhanced (23 November 2020)
• 2020A 40-knot UAP and a pair at 278 knots in one mission report (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
• 2020A contrast crosses and is tracked (8 August 2020)
• 2020A contrast drops through the frame over the Persian Gulf and fades into the grain (21 August 2020)
• 2020A contrast that fades in and out and survives two sensor-mode switches (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
• 2020A contrast that fades in infrared and reappears in electro-optical (13 February 2020)
• 2020A contrast that leaves and re-enters the frame several times (24 August 2020)
• 2020A contrast tracked for three minutes until it fades; then a second appears (7 October 2020)
• 2020A faint contrast clips the corner of an infrared frame (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
• 2020A five-minute infrared track with reticle cycling, then loss of track (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
• 2020A full-motion video of a UAP zoomed and tracked (16 September 2020)
• 2020A Navy helicopter crew sees three unknown small air contacts with no radar, IFF or ES returns (24 August 2020)
• 2020A possible UAP speeds up and turns east at 321 knots (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
• 2020A round, cold object tracked in infrared making abrupt turns over the Gulf of Aden (4 September 2020)
• 2020A two-second crossing on full-motion video (17 September 2020)
• 2020A UAP near the Strait of Hormuz whose observation line is missing from the release (2 October 2020)
• 2020An infrared track held centre-frame for a minute and a half (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
• 2020An ISR crew records one UAP "transitting" over the Persian Gulf (8 August 2020)
• 2020An object crosses the frame bottom to top three times (5 September 2020)
• 2020Eight separate crossings of the sensor view in five minutes (20 October 2020)
• 2020Four UAP pass beneath an ISR aircraft (MISREP 8799515, war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
• 2020Nine seconds of infrared: a contrast crosses the frame in two seconds (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
• 2020One "probable UAP", no mission impact (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
• 2020One UAP on full-motion video off Bushehr, Iran, on a mission with two lost-link events (16 September 2020)
• 2020Range Fouler: a round, cold object with abrupt turns off Mirbat, Oman (15 October 2020)
• 2020Range Fouler: a solid white object makes "erratic moments" over the northern Gulf (14 May 2020)
• 2020Range Fouler: one object overtaken by another, then three on screen (31 August 2020)
• 2020Three separate UAP observations on one ISR mission over the Persian Gulf (16 July 2020)
• 2020Two parts of an infrared recording of several contrasts (31 August 2020)
• 2020Two range foulers circle each other, vanish "in 1/30th of a second", with strobes and noise jamming (27 October 2020)
• 2019"UFOs in formation over Persian Gulf?": a 17-minute infrared recording (uploaded October 2019)
• 2019Grouped contrasts recorded twice on one day (25 September 2019, 1715Z and 2135Z)
• 2018One contrast resolves into three in a line, and one pulls away (3 July 2018)
• 2017A one-second crossing in a 17-second AFSOC clip from Kabul (July 2017)
• 2016A P-8A sees an unidentified low-flying object, possibly a sea-skimming missile, off Latakia (18 November 2016)
• 2013An eight-pointed star with a trail on infrared (Middle East, 2013)
• —A triangular, metallic UAP over the Aegean during return to base (date withheld)

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