DOW-UAP-D056, Range Fouler Debrief, Arabian Sea, August 2020
This document is a Range Fouler Debrief Form, a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training. These reports contain a narrative description of the observer’s experiences. A U.S. military operator reported an encounter with a group of three “unidentified small air contacts” over the North Arabian Sea. The reporter described the UAP as having “wings/airframe” structure, and as initially bearing on a westerly heading. The operator tracked one UAP before losing sight of it behind a cloud. Upon regaining contact, the operator reported observing two additional UAP to the east of the first. The report states that all three objects then “appeared to maintain their relative course, speed, and altitude.” 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.
Search extracted document text
Probed searches extracted/indexed text and can show matching pages when page indexing is available.
Document Intel
Source status, provenance, and extraction context.
- Source
- War.gov PURSUE
- Type
- Report
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Agency
- Department of War
- Reference #
- RELEASE-01-FILE-065-DOW-UAP-D56-RANGE-FOULER-DEBRIEF-ARABIAN-SEA-AUGUST-2020
- Published
- 2026-05-08
- Content Type
- application/pdf
- Pages
- 1
Structured Analysis
Claims and source material extracted from the document text. Timeline context is surfaced in document intel.
A U.S. military operator reported an encounter with a group of three 'unidentified small air contacts' over the North Arabian Sea.
A U.S. military operator reported an encounter with a group of three 'unidentified small air contacts' over the North Arabian Sea.
The UAP were described as having 'wings/airframe' structure.
The reporter described the UAP as having 'wings/airframe' structure.
The UAP initially bore on a westerly heading.
The reporter described the UAP as initially bearing on a westerly heading.
The operator tracked one UAP before losing sight of it behind a cloud.
The operator tracked one UAP before losing sight of it behind a cloud.
Upon regaining contact, the operator observed two additional UAP to the east of the first.
Upon regaining contact, the operator reported observing two additional UAP to the east of the first.
All three objects appeared to maintain their relative course, speed, and altitude.
All three objects then 'appeared to maintain their relative course, speed, and altitude.'
Chronology extracted from the document text.
UAP Encounter in North Arabian Sea
A U.S. military operator reported an encounter with unidentified small air contacts.
Referenced In Coverage
Investigative posts, source items, and other coverage that currently cite this document.
UFO Files Release Tracker
This document is part of the Release 01 tracker, where Probed groups War.gov-published files, media, and analysis state for the series.
Release 01 Documents
Other War.gov PURSUE files in this release.