Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020

This U.S. Department of War mission report, titled for the Arabian Gulf in 2020, has no date. It is a heavily redacted UAP report form, with its withheld portions marked 1.4(a). The unredacted text describes a weapons quality track of a UAP traveling with the winds at 31,000 feet. The crew was able to make a next to shoot on the track and visually identified the object in the TFLIR as looking like a balloon, similar to UAP previously reported from 48FW.

From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. Released with redactions. 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 observing a UAP, describing it as “look[ing] like a balloon.” The report describes the UAP as “traveling with the winds at approximately 31,000 ft.” The visually tracked the UAP via onboard infrared sensor. 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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