PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-D12, Mission Report, Iraq, May 2022

DOW-UAP-D12 is a Department of War PDF from PURSUE Release 01, released May 8, 2026, covering a May 20, 2022 Iraq mission report.¹ The release catalog describes MISREPs as standardized U.S. military forms for recording operational circumstances and notes that military services often use them to report UAP to AARO, especially through qualitative GENTEXT fields.¹

The released PDF is a six-page, formerly SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY mission report titled Misrep undefined-7528881.² It was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on October 8, 2025, carries the control line MDR 25-0094 thru MDR 25-0099 / JS-250710-TM8S, and is marked approved for release to AARO.²

  D12 Iraq OIR Sortie

The report places the sortie under Operation Inherent Resolve as an air-domain reconnaissance mission involving ACC, USCENTCOM, the 609th operations center, and originator 196 ATKS.² It records a late takeoff from OKAS at 0542Z on May 20, 2022 after communications issues, handover from the launch and recovery element at 0551Z, and landing back at OKAS at 0036Z on May 21 after an 18-hour, 54-minute mission.²

During the mission, the platform collected SIGINT through Airhandler version 2 from 0614Z to 2346Z and supported Operation Phantom Flex from 0927Z to 2121Z in the vicinity of a redacted Military Grid Reference System location.² The ISR section says the platform conducted full-motion video and signals-intelligence support for MAG, weather was not a factor, and the mission was effective.²

  Northbound UAP Contact

The UAP line records initial contact at 2043Z on May 20, 2022, while the friendly aircraft was at 18,000 feet.² Most platform identifiers, grid precision, and personnel details are withheld under classification and FOIA markings, but the report lists one UAP sighted, an unknown asset type and tail number, and unknown altitude, depth, velocity, and trajectory for the object.²

In the UAP GENTEXT, a redacted observer reported watching the UAP fly north to northeast and following it for as long as possible; the screener could not obtain a positive identification.² The PURSUE catalog summarizes the same core point and cautions that descriptive and estimative language reflects the reporter's subjective interpretation rather than conclusive object features or performance characteristics.¹

  What the MISREP Preserves

DOW-UAP-D12 matters because it preserves the operational reporting frame around a UAP observation: a specific reconnaissance sortie, time sequence, sensor-tasking context, altitude, redacted location grid references, and the administrative trail by which a military MISREP became an AARO release record.¹²

The record also shows the limits of the evidence. It documents an unresolved observation inside a classified operational mission, but its own fields leave the object's platform type, tail number, signatures, altitude, velocity, and trajectory unknown.²

  D12 Mission Report PDF

DOW-UAP-D12, Mission Report, Iraq, May 2022 remote release asset

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1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹