DOW-UAP-D16 is a Department of War Mission Report released in PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The release metadata identifies the incident date as July 31, 2022, the incident location as Syria, and pairs the PDF with PR-22, DVIDS video ID 1006060.123
The release describes MISREPs as standardized U.S. military reporting forms used to record operational circumstances, and notes that the GENTEXT sections often carry the qualitative context for UAP reports sent to AARO.1
Declassified USCENTCOM MISREP
The PDF is a seven-page MISREP declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on October 8, 2025. It is labeled MDR 25-0094 through MDR 25-0099 / JS-250710-TM8S, marked approved for release to AARO, and retains classification, FOIA, and privacy redactions throughout the record.2
The report places the sortie under Operation Inherent Resolve in the air domain, with AFCENT as the major command, USCENTCOM as the combatant command, and the 609th operations center listed. The report type is MISREP, the originator is 89 ATKS, the mission type is Armed Recce, and the country and service tasked fields identify a U.S. Air Force tasking.2
July 30-31 Sortie Timeline
The narrative says Task Force Chosin tasked the mission with imagery intelligence via a seven-line request at 301639ZJUL22. The aircraft departed Muwaffaq Salti Air Base at 301822ZJUL22, began signals intelligence collection at 301925ZJUL22, and checked in to perform imagery intelligence near a redacted MGRS location at 302028ZJUL22.2
The timeline records the UAP observation at 310239ZJUL22, followed by return to base at 311343ZJUL22, termination of signals intelligence collection at 311409ZJUL22, handoff to the launch and recovery element at 311458ZJUL22, and landing at OJMS at 311519ZJUL22. The report totals 20.9 mission hours, 17.2 imagery intelligence hours, 18.7 signals intelligence hours, and two prosecuted taskings.2
Brief North-to-South Sighting
The UAP section lists the initial contact time as 310239:00ZJUL22. It records the friendly aircraft at 19,359 feet and 116 knots, leaves the UAP's physical state, number sighted, and trajectory fields blank, and marks UAP signatures as "No."2
In the UAP description, the reporter states that an event occurred near a partly redacted MGRS location in KP 9, lasted less than one minute, and moved from north to south. The release description repeats the under-one-minute duration and cautions that descriptive and estimative language reflects the reporter's subjective interpretation at the time, not a conclusive finding about object features or performance.12
PR-22 Sensor Clip
The paired PR-22 release says USCENTCOM submitted a UAP report to AARO consisting of 14 seconds of video from infrared and electro-optical sensors aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. Its description says that at the five-second mark an object moves right to left across the upper-right quarter of the sensor field of view.34
That pairing matters because the mission report supplies operational context that the clip alone cannot: the tasking chain, mission timing, sensor collection context, aircraft state, and the original reporter's narrow description of a brief north-to-south event. It also shows the limits of the public record, since many tactical, personnel, platform, and location details remain redacted and the release warns against treating the reporter's words as final analysis.123
D16 Mission Report PDF
DOW-UAP-D16, Mission Report, Syria, July 2022