Five declassified U.S. Central Command mission reports, released through the Pentagon's war.gov/UFO portal, document UAP encounters logged by Air Force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance crews during operational missions across Syria, Greece, and the broader Middle East. The reports span October 2020 through January 2024 and were individually approved for release to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

The documents are routine military mission reports — MISREPs — not analytical assessments. They record what crews observed and fill out standardized fields for UAP physical state, maneuverability, propulsion, and observer assessment. None of the five reports include a definitive identification of any object, and none contain AARO's own analytical conclusions. What they provide is a raw operational paper trail: credentialed military observers, precise timestamps, and geographic coordinates.

What the documents say

DOW UAP D10 — Middle East, May 2022. A U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft operating under Operation Inherent Resolve took off at 0246Z on May 6, 2022. Beginning at 1514Z, the crew observed five objects fly across the field of view over a nearly four-and-a-half-hour window, according to the mission report. The first, observed at 1514Z, had the visual characteristics of a possible missile. The report states directly: "AT 1514Z 1.4a OBSERVED A UAP WITH THE VISRECCE OF A POSSIBLE 1.4a MISSILE FLY ACROSS THE FOV." The four subsequent objects were assessed differently — the report notes that "ALL 4X REMAINING UAP FIT CLOSER TO THE PROFILE OF POSSIBLE BIRDS." Dust was documented as an environmental factor, with the weather section stating that "DUST HINDERED MOST FMV COLLECTION OF THE GROUND." Full Motion Video was exploited by an element identified as DGS1. The originating squadron, unit identifiers, aircraft type, and tail number are redacted under 1.4a exemptions. The report was declassified October 7, 2025, by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, and approved for release to AARO under MDR 25-0093.

"AT 1514Z 1.4a OBSERVED A UAP WITH THE VISRECCE OF A POSSIBLE 1.4a MISSILE FLY ACROSS THE FOV."

DOW UAP D33 — Greece, October 2023. An Air Force ISR aircraft departed LGLR (Larissa Air Base, Greece) on the evening of October 26, 2023, with a mission lasting 13 hours and 30 minutes. At 0035Z, the crew observed one possible UAP, logged as UAP 1. The standardized UAP data block records several notable entries: maneuverability observations are listed as "Sharp 90 degree turns," physical state as solid, propulsion means as unknown, and signatures as none. The observer assessed the UAP as benign. No sensor interrogation was conducted, no intelligent control was attributed, and no effects on persons or equipment were recorded. Full Motion Video was exploited by an element identified as GET — an abbreviation whose full name is not explained in the released text. The originating unit is the 33rd Special Operations Squadron (33 SOS), assigned to the 27th Special Operations Wing (27 SOW), operating through the 609 CAOC. The document was declassified January 22, 2026, by MG Harrison, and approved for release under MDR 26-0019.

DOW UAP D25 — Greece, January 2024. This report, originally classified SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY, documents a 20-hour-and-40-minute ISR mission departing LGLR on January 25, 2024. At 0509Z — roughly four hours into the flight, before the aircraft even arrived on station — the crew observed UAP 1. The report lists maneuverability observations as none, response to observer actions as none, observer assessment as benign, and explicitly records that no sensor interrogation of the UAP was conducted. The friendly aircraft was at FL250, traveling at 176 knots on a heading of 162 degrees. The aircraft type, tail number, and specific UAP characteristics from that observation are redacted under 1.4a exemptions. The originating unit is again the 33 SOS/27 SOW, processed through the 609 CAOC. FMV was exploited by GET. The report was declassified October 24, 2025, by MG Harrison, and approved for release to AARO under MDR 25-0100 through 25-0103.

DOW UAP D74 — Syria, November 2023. This report covers an Air Force ISR mission on November 9, 2023, conducted under Operation Inherent Resolve and processed through the 609th CAOC. The UAP observation occurred at 2153Z at coordinates 37D ST 69 — a location in Syrian airspace, though precise grid details are partially redacted. The aircraft was performing FMV and SIGINT collection at multiple task points throughout the day before the UAP was logged. The full UAP data block for this report is not reproduced in the released text available for review, leaving specific maneuverability, propulsion, and assessment fields unconfirmed from the provided pages. The document carries the classification SECRET//NOFORN and was recommended for release by MG Brandon R. Tegtmeier, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on June 2, 2025, under MDR 25-0072. Tegtmeier's involvement — rather than Harrison's — is notable; it is the only report in this batch bearing his signature.

DOW UAP D58 — Range Fouler Debrief, October 2020. The oldest document in the batch is a standardized range fouler debrief form filed on October 27, 2020. The pilot describes being directed by an element identified as KINGPIN to identify an unknown contact. The pilot obtained radar lock and target pod video but was unable to close within 16.9 nautical miles for a better identification. The target pod showed two infrared-significant contacts, with one contact circling around the other. The report states that in one-thirtieth of a second, both contacts disappeared. Visual contact — described in the form as a "tally" — was achieved with two red blinking strobes. The pilot also reported receiving noise jamming, indicated by two chevrons on the sensor display. The aircraft was equipped with radar and a target pod but the specific platform and squadron are redacted. The form was declassified by MG Harrison and approved for release to AARO under MDR 26-0038 through 26-0046 on March 27, 2026.

Across all five reports, UAP descriptions are brief and standardized. None contain post-event analysis, scientific assessment, or follow-up investigation results. Redactions under the 1.4a exemption (intelligence sources and methods) remove aircraft types, tail numbers, callsigns, specific unit identifiers, and in several cases the precise UAP characteristics themselves. The identity of GET — the organization credited with exploiting FMV footage in the Greece missions — is not explained anywhere in the released material. DGS1, credited in the May 2022 Middle East report, is a designation associated with Distributed Ground System operations, but the documents do not elaborate.

What these records establish — and what they don't

These five reports do several things that matter for the public record. They confirm that U.S. Air Force ISR crews have been filing formal UAP reports through USCENTCOM's standard mission reporting system — not as anomalies, but as a documented field within the standard MISREP format. The existence of a dedicated UAP data block in operational military paperwork, with fields for maneuverability, propulsion, intelligent control, and effects on persons, indicates an institutionalized reporting expectation, not an ad hoc response.

The Greece October 2023 report's notation of sharp 90-degree turns stands out as the most operationally unusual characterization in the batch. The observer still assessed the object as benign and conducted no sensor interrogation — a combination that itself raises questions the documents don't answer.

The October 2020 Range Fouler debrief is the oldest and, in some respects, the most detailed in describing sensor returns: radar lock achieved, target pod video obtained, two IR contacts observed in circular motion, disappearance in one-thirtieth of a second, visual strobes confirmed, and noise jamming received. That combination — radar, infrared, visual, and electronic warfare indicators — is denser than most of the other reports. Yet like the rest, it leads nowhere in terms of identification.

What these documents do not provide: AARO's analysis of any of these cases, any follow-on investigation findings, identification of the objects in any instance, or official responses from the units involved. Several critical fields throughout the reports remain redacted, including aircraft identifiers, specific UAP descriptions, and coordinates. The question of what GET and DGS1 found when they exploited the FMV footage is entirely unaddressed in the released pages.

For readers tracking the slow accumulation of declassified operational UAP records through war.gov, this batch is consistent with what prior releases have shown: a military that has normalized UAP reporting at the crew level, channels those reports to AARO, and has released the raw filings without accompanying analysis. The gap between what crews observed and what anyone has concluded about those observations remains, for now, as wide as ever.