Declassified USCENTCOM Mission Report
The Department of War's May 8, 2026 PURSUE Release 01 identifies DOW-UAP-D23 as a Department of War mission report connected to a Persian Gulf UAP incident, with release metadata assigning the incident date as October 31, 2023.1 The PDF itself is a nine-page USCENTCOM MISREP declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on September 12, 2025, with FOUO and Privacy Act markings.2
The report's internal timeline is dated October 24, 2023 rather than October 31. It places the aircraft launch and recovery at Al Dhafra Air Base, OMAM, under Operation Spartan Shield, with USCENTCOM as combatant command, the 609th in operations-center fields, and the 50th Attack Squadron listed in reporting fields.2
Two October 24 UAP Entries
The mission timeline records takeoff at 0015Z, on-station time from 0155Z to 1912Z, landing at 2058Z, and a total mission time of 20 hours and 43 minutes. It describes imagery-intelligence support to NAVCENT for Operation Spartan Shield, notes that weather was not a factor, and records a professional guard call from Iranian Air Defense before the UAP entries.2
The first UAP entry lists initial contact at 0241Z. It places the friendly aircraft at flight level 243, records a speed of 162 KTAS and a 280-degree trajectory, assesses the UAP as benign, describes its physical state as solid, reports no maneuverability observations or effects on persons, and gives an estimated kinetic velocity of 320 mph. The GENTEXT field says one UAP was observed near a redacted grid location.2
The second UAP entry lists initial contact at 0322Z with the same friendly-aircraft altitude, speed, and trajectory. It again assesses the UAP as benign, describes its physical state as solid, reports no maneuverability observations or effects on persons, and gives an estimated kinetic velocity of 440 mph. Its GENTEXT field likewise records one UAP near a redacted grid location.2
PR-26 Infrared Video Link
The release metadata pairs this D23 mission report with PR-26, a DVIDS-hosted unresolved UAP video associated with the United Arab Emirates in October 2023.3 The metadata describes PR-26 as 43 seconds of infrared-sensor footage from a U.S. military platform submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO, and says the accompanying D23 mission report mentions a UAP observed during the mission.34
The PR-26 description tracks an area of contrast that remains in the upper-left part of the display, passes through the center as the sensor pans, then leaves the sensor field of view when tracking stops. The same metadata cautions that the description is informational and should not be treated as an investigative conclusion about the object's nature or significance.3
D23 Record Behind PR26
DOW-UAP-D23 matters because it ties public UAP media to a contemporaneous operational report rather than a standalone clip. The PDF preserves the mission schedule, command context, sensor-support tasking, guard-call context, and two UAP report forms, while also showing what remains redacted, unknown, or unresolved.23
The report does not identify the object, claim intelligent control, or document effects on personnel, and both UAP entries use a benign observer-assessment field. Its value is evidentiary context: it shows how the observation entered the military reporting stream, how the record was later declassified, and how PURSUE metadata connects the mission report to PR-26 media.123