DOW-UAP-D3 is a Department of War Mission Report released through PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The release metadata titles it as an Arabian Gulf 2020 record, lists the incident date and incident location as N/A, and does not assign a public video pairing to the document.1
The seven-page PDF is titled Misrep 8799515 Narrative. Its classification block reads SECRET, gives a declassification date field of June 3, 2048, and withholds the associated caveats, classification source, operation, operations center, combatant command, originator, and submission date under redactions.2
AFCENT Mission Report Provenance
The report identifies the major command as AFCENT, the country tasked as the United States, and the service tasked as the Air Force. Its contact, quality-control, and approver sections redact names, units, phone numbers, and email details under privacy and military-personnel exemptions, while still showing Air Force service entries and SMIL email fragments.2
The PURSUE release description explains that MISREPs are standardized U.S. military forms for recording operational circumstances and that military services often use their GENTEXT fields to report UAP to AARO. The same release description cautions that descriptive and estimative language reflects the original reporter's subjective interpretation at the time of the event.1
Redacted ISR Mission Fields
Most mission-identifying detail is withheld. The tasking order, mission type, ATO mission number, aircraft callsign, asset type, tail number, takeoff location, takeoff time, landing time, total mission time, sensors, and detailed ISR tasking fields are redacted or blank. The visible timeline leaves the activity description as ISR and includes only a short weather note in the takeoff narrative.2
The UAP section is similarly limited. Initial contact time, event type, maneuverability observations, observer response, friendly aircraft position, UAP first and last seen locations, physical state, signatures, propulsion, payload, and RF details are redacted or blank. One field records no reported advanced capabilities or materials, and the event serial number is left as a dash.2
The clearest narrative appears in the GENTEXT/UAP fields. The report says four UAP were observed moving through a redacted field of view, but cloud cover prevented the observer from following them and getting a clear visual. The event description records one UAP at 17:36:22Z, two side by side at 17:36:30Z, and one more at 17:36:49Z.2
Four Contacts in Sensor View
DOW-UAP-D3 matters because it preserves a contemporaneous military reporting frame around a brief 2020 UAP observation rather than only a later summary. Even with heavy redactions, the PDF shows the report type, Air Force and AFCENT context, ISR setting, exact observation sequence, and the limits of what the released record can establish.12
The document is also useful as a boundary marker for PURSUE Release 01. Unlike several other release entries, this D3 MISREP is not paired with a public DVIDS video, so the written GENTEXT is the main released description of the event; it records four observed contacts but does not identify the objects or assert unusual performance beyond their appearance in the sensor field of view.12