Mission Report: Iraq, September 2024 (DOW-UAP-D28)

This document is a Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized reporting form the U.S. Military uses to record the circumstances surrounding its operations. U.S. military services often use MISREPs to report Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to AARO. The GENTEXT, or “general text” section of these reports often contains important qualitative, contextual information, distinguishing it from the more quantitative, or numerical, data found elsewhere in the report. While conducting a weapons calibration test, U.S. military operators reported observing a lens flare via MX-20 and MX-25 IR sensors after firing an AGM-176 Griffin air-to-surface missile. The operators described the source of the flare as a UAP moving through the aircraft’s sensor’s field-of-view at a high rate of speed. The reporter assessed that the flare was associated with “a significant heat source.” All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.

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

- **DOW-UAP-D28, Mission Report, Iraq, September 2024** (Department of War, 2024-09-20 · Iraq) — 6 pages.

Source integrity: SHA-256 `e12c00b3e2d64e35…`

*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):**

> (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY) *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* DEPARTED OKAS AT 1740Z TO CONDUCT ARMED OVERWATCH IVO 38SKC*[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* ARRIVED ON STATION AT APPROXIMATELY 1930Z AND CHECKED IN WITH *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]*. PERFORMED A WEAPONS CALIBRATION, HAVING RELEASED 20x105mm, 101x30mm, 1xAGM-176. *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]*'s CREW OBSERVED AN UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA DURING ITS PGM SHOT (SEE UAP 1). *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* WAS CLEARED OFF STATION AT 2323

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