DOW-UAP-D102, AC-130 Flight Log and Sensor Telemetry, Gulf of Oman, 2021

DOW-UAP-D102 is a document released publicly as part of PURSUE Release 05 on August 7, 2026. The record originates from the Department of War and documents an incident from August 19, 2021, over the Gulf of Oman. ¹²³

  Provenance and Content

The Department of War declassified the file and approved it for release under the PURSUE disclosure framework. The record consists of an AC-130 flight log extract paired with electro-optical/infrared telemetry data from a patrol over the Gulf of Oman in August 2021. The telemetry recorded thermal differentials attributed to non-propulsive spherical objects during that patrol.¹²³

  What the Record Supports

The flight log and telemetry establish that the crew's sensors registered thermal signatures consistent with spherical objects showing no propulsion signature. The record does not identify the objects or explain the source of the thermal differentials.³

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩²

2. war.gov ↩ ↩²

3. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³