Mission Report: Persian Gulf, July 2020 (DOW-UAP-D65)

A U.S. military operator reported encountering three separate UAP on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z. 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.

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. A U.S. military operator reported encountering three separate UAP on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z. 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-D65, Mission Report, Persian Gulf, July 2020** (Department of War, 2020-07-16 · Persian Gulf) — 8 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):**

> *[REDACTED]* AT 0443Z. *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* TOOK OFF FROM OKAS. AT 0504Z *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* HANDED OVER FROM THE LRE. FROM 0631Z TO 0050Z, *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* FROM 0552Z TO 0012Z *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* SUPPORTED NAVCENT TO OPERATION *[REDACTED — (b)(1)1.4(a)]* IVO ARABIAN GULF, STRAIT OF HORMU

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

Source documents

DOW-UAP-D65, Mission Report, Persian Gulf, July 2020
Department of War via PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026)

Primary sourceU.S. Department of War — PURSUE Release 01