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RELEASE 01 / DOW-UAP-D065

DOW-UAP-D065, Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, July 2020

File ID
DOW-UAP-D065
Agency
Department of War
Release
Release 01, 8 May 2026
Event date
7/16/2020 (read as 16 Jul 2020; precision: day)
Location
Arabian Gulf
Type
PDF
Redactions
Yes, parts of the official copy are blacked out

The official record

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Official summary, as published

This document is a Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized reporting form the U.S. Military uses to record the circumstances surrounding its operations. U.S. military services often use MISREPs to report Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to AARO. The GENTEXT, or “general text” section of these reports often contains important qualitative, contextual information, distinguishing it from the more quantitative, or numerical, data found elsewhere in the report.

A U.S. military operator reported encountering three separate UAP on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z.

All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.

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