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DOW-UAP-D108, Mission Report, Middle East, 2025

This July 2025 mission report records a UAP incident during an Operation Inherent Resolve mission. The form preserves descriptions and an estimated velocity while also recording unknown control and propulsion, no material recovery, and no asserted advanced capabilities.

File
Document · Release 06
Date
2025-07-29
Location
Middle East
Extent
8 pages

Probed Assessment

The report preserves estimated and descriptive fields while also documenting important unknowns and negative entries.

Key takeaways

  • The official mission report is the primary source for the report fields and narrative.
  • Reported observations and estimates are retained as reported, without treating them as an identification or validated performance measurement.

Why it matters

This record makes the source report and its explicit uncertainty available for comparison with related released material.

Corroboration

The report is source-checked page by page. Its entries describe the reporting unit’s account and do not independently resolve the reported phenomenon.

Open questions

  • Whether separately released sensor material or supporting records provide additional context beyond the mission report.

Probed separates this editorial assessment from the source claims below. It summarizes what the released artifact supports; it is not independent verification.

Official Description from War.gov

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 the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (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. This mission report accompanies video footage derived from an infrared system aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025 (DOW-UAP-PR135). A U.S. military operator reported observing UAP, describing it as consisting of “six small spherical objects grouped together, and characterized their behavior as “seem[ingle] agile,” and “frequently changing direction.” The reporter estimated the speed of the UAP to have been 480 miles per hour. 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.

Preserved verbatim as source metadata. This wording is separate from Probed’s file-specific description and assessment.

File Context

Related entities

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Research Map relationships require row-level claim or timeline references.

Tracker findings

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A described group still leaves control and performance uncertain

The report describes six small spherical objects together, while marking velocity as estimated and intelligent control as unknown. A description is not an identification.

Release provenance

Release
Release 06
Official ID
release-06-file-016-dow-uap-d108-mission-report-middle-east-2025
Cleared
Sep 18, 2026
Official release source

Referenced Timeline

  1. Page 6

    Reported UAP incident

    The UAP section records initial contact at 292022:32ZJUL25.

Source Claims

Claims are attributed to the released source and remain distinct from Probed’s assessment and tracker findings.

Source reportedAssertedPage 1

The report identifies an Operation Inherent Resolve air-domain MISREP.

Operation: INHERENT RESOLVE

Source reportedAssertedPage 2

The mission form lists Air Force Special Operations Command and United States Central Command as its major and combatant commands.

Major Command (MAJCOM): AFSOC • Combatant Command (COCOM): USCENTCOM

Source reportedUnverifiedPage 6

The UAP section records initial contact at 292022:32ZJUL25 and characterizes maneuverability as seemingly agile and frequently changing direction.

Initial Contact DTG: 292022:32ZJUL25 … UAP Maneuverability Observations: SEEMED TO BE AGILE, FREQUENTLY CHANGING DIRECTION

Source reportedUnverifiedPage 7

The form describes six small spherical objects grouped together.

UAP Description (e.g., size, shape, color, markings, recognizable features): 6X SMALL SPHERICAL OBJECTS GROUPED TOGETHER

Source reportedUnverifiedPage 7

The form records 480 mph as an estimated kinetic velocity.

Kinetic Velocity Accuracy: Estimated • Kinetic Velocity: 48OMPH

Source Material & Evidence

document

Official D108 mission report PDF

Department of War, DOW-UAP-D108_Mission-Report-Middle-East-2025

Research Map

8 entities · 1 grounded link

Lines appear only when two entities share a row-level source claim or dated timeline event. Unconnected nodes remain visible without implying a relationship.

UAP/Disclosure Graph
8 nodes1 links