PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-D33, Mission Report, Greece, October 2023

DOW-UAP-D33 is a Department of War Mission Report released in PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The release metadata identifies the incident date as October 27, 2023, places it in the Aegean Sea, and pairs the PDF with PR-34, DVIDS video ID 1006080.¹²³

The release describes MISREPs as standardized U.S. military reporting forms for operational circumstances, and says their GENTEXT sections often preserve the qualitative context for UAP reports sent to AARO.¹

  Seven-Page USCENTCOM MISREP

The PDF is a seven-page USCENTCOM MISREP, numbered 9329374, declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on January 22, 2026. It is marked USCENTCOM MDR 26-0019, approved for release to AARO on January 26, 2026, and retains redactions for classified operational information and personal privacy.²

The report places the sortie in the air domain, with the 603rd listed as operations center, AFSOC as major command, USCENTCOM as combatant command, 33 SOS as the originator, and the mission type listed as ISR. The service tasked field identifies the mission as U.S. Air Force, while aircraft, personnel, tasking, and several grid-location details remain redacted.²

  Overnight Aegean Sortie

The narrative says the aircraft took off from LGLR at 2339Z on October 26, 2023, was handed over from the launch and recovery element, and proceeded to assigned tasking. It records a seven-line request at 0013Z on October 27, followed by an on-station time of 0342Z and FMV/SIGINT collection at a partly redacted Military Grid Reference System location.²

The mission report records the UAP observation at 0035Z while the crew was en route to the target. The aircraft later returned to base at 1011Z, was handed back to the launch and recovery element at 1213Z, and landed at OJMS at 1309Z. The report totals 13 hours and 30 minutes of mission time, six hours and 29 minutes of full-motion-video time, and one prosecuted FMV tasking.²

  Low Ocean Contact

The UAP section gives the initial contact time as 270035:12ZOCT23 and classifies the entry as a UAP incident. It records the maneuverability observation as sharp 90-degree turns, the observer assessment as benign, the physical state as solid, the propulsion means as unknown, and the estimated kinetic velocity as 80 miles per hour.²

The UAP description says the object was "seemingly circular" and too small for details to be made out. In the event narrative, the reporter said the crew spotted a UAP flying just above the surface of the ocean, taking multiple 90-degree turns at an estimated 80 miles per hour, before losing it from the feed at 0038Z.²

The report lists no effects on persons, no recovered object or material, no effects on equipment, no observer engagement, no UAP signatures, and no stated response to observer actions. It also marks intelligent control as "NO" while leaving advanced capabilities or materials as unknown, which is a useful reminder that the MISREP records the operator's report rather than a final identification.²

  PR-34 Infrared Video

PURSUE Release 01 pairs the D33 mission report with PR-34, a DVIDS-hosted unresolved UAP report from Greece in October 2023. The PR-34 metadata says USCENTCOM submitted a UAP report to AARO consisting of two minutes and 57 seconds of infrared-sensor video from a U.S. military platform in 2023, and ties that public video to the D33 report's description of a low-over-water object making 90-degree turns at about 80 miles per hour.³⁴

The PR-34 video description says an area of contrast enters the sensor field of view at 00:04, moves horizontally as the sensor pans to track it, remains generally centered through 01:00, is marked by a blue reticle from 01:00 to 02:01, and becomes indistinguishable against the background at 02:22 before the sensor cycles zoom levels and contrast thresholds. The release cautions that descriptive and estimative language reflects the reporter's subjective interpretation at the time, not an analytical conclusion about the event's validity, nature, or significance.¹³

  What D33 Adds

DOW-UAP-D33 matters because it anchors a short public infrared video to a fuller operational record: mission timing, sensor context, tasking status, original observer language, and the redaction boundaries around aircraft, personnel, and precise locations. The report does not identify the object, but it preserves the contemporaneous reason the event entered the UAP reporting chain.²³

The pairing also shows how PURSUE Release 01 separates source reporting from public media presentation. The MISREP carries the operational form and UAP fields; PR-34 supplies the released video description and explicit caution that the public wording should not be treated as a final investigative judgment.¹³

  Released D33 Mission Report

DOW-UAP-D33, Mission Report, Greece, October 2023

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

3. dvidshub.net ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

4. d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net ↩