PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-PR20, Unresolved UAP Report, Kuwait, May 2022

  PURSUE Catalog Entry

The Department of War's May 8, 2026 PURSUE Release 01 catalog lists DOW-UAP-PR20 as Unresolved UAP Report, Kuwait, May 2022. The same release metadata classifies it as a Department of War PDF/image record, gives the incident date as N/A, gives the incident location as Iraq, and pairs it with DoW-UAP-D12.¹²

PR20 is a one-page USCENTCOM recommendation-to-AARO image record. The page bears a Department of Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review clearance date of March 10, 2026, a recommendation by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on October 8, 2025, and the control line USCENTCOM MDR 25-0094 thru MDR 25-0099 / JS-250710-TM8S dated October 17, 2025.²

  Annotated Sensor Still

The released image is a grayscale sensor frame with black redaction boxes and an added red outline around a small bright, elongated area in the upper-left part of the scene. The release description says the still image came from a U.S. military system and that the original reporter digitally added the red line before submitting the imagery to AARO.¹²

The catalog description characterizes the encircled feature as an elongated area of contrast in the top-left quarter whose intensity increases along its length from upper left to lower right. The same description cautions that it is informational and should not be read as an investigative conclusion about the event's validity, nature, or significance.¹

  D12 Iraq MISREP

The paired DoW-UAP-D12 record is a six-page USCENTCOM MISREP for an Operation Inherent Resolve air reconnaissance mission over Iraq on May 20-21, 2022.³ Its timeline records takeoff from OKAS at 0542Z, on-station time beginning at 0551Z, SIGINT collection through Airhandler version 2, full-motion video and signals-intelligence support, and landing back at OKAS at 0036Z on May 21.³

The UAP section records initial contact at 2043Z on May 20, one UAP sighted, a friendly aircraft altitude of 18,000 feet, and unknown UAP altitude, depth, velocity, and trajectory. Its GENTEXT field says a redacted observer saw the UAP fly north to northeast, followed it as long as possible, and that the screener could not get a positive identification.³

  Still Image, No Video

The PR20 catalog entry does not assign a DVIDS video ID or provide a direct MP4. It points to the PR20 PDF and thumbnail, so this page treats PR20 as a still-image PDF record rather than a video record.¹²

  Provenance and Limits

PR20 matters because it is the public image counterpart to D12's operational reporting trail. The still image shows exactly what was released: an annotated, redacted sensor frame, not raw sensor data, calibrated kinematics, or a self-contained identification.²³

Read with D12, the record preserves useful provenance: USCENTCOM originated the report, the observation was folded into a standardized mission-report structure, and AARO received an unresolved case packet. The same pairing also shows the evidentiary limits: location metadata is ambiguous between the PR20 title's Kuwait and the catalog/D12 Iraq context, and the core object fields remain unknown or redacted.¹²³

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

3. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵