Unresolved UAP Report: Iraq, May 2022 (DOW-UAP-PR21)

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of ten seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D14, described the UAP as a “probable SU-27/35." Video Description: The video depicts two areas of contrast moving together near the center of the field-of-view throughout the runtime. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance. AARO Comment: SU-27 and SU-35 are designations for military aircraft operated by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

**Released as part of PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026).** The Department of War published the following primary-source records:

- **DOW-UAP-PR21, Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, May 2022** (Department of War, 2022-06-15 · Iraq) — 9 pages.

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*Skeleton import — comprehensive narrative analysis pending. Sources are linked above; OCR-extracted text from the page images is available in the [PURSUE Open Atlas dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alex-zhang42/ufo-pursue-open-atlas) (CC0).*

### From the declassified record

**Excerpted narrative (verbatim, with redactions indicated):**

> > ~~(S/REL)~~ AT 1355Z, *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* TOOK OFF FROM SIGONELLA AIRBASE (LICZ).

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> > AT 1424Z, *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* HANDED OVER FROM THE LRE.

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> > FROM 1507Z TO 0906Z, *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* COLLECTED SIGINT VIA AIRHANDLER.

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> > AT 1551

*Direct excerpt from the declassified document. Full document linked above.*