Summary
This Mission Report (MISREP) describes a U.S. military operator observing five UAP cross the sensor screen in Iraq on May 6, 2022. The report characterized one of them as a possible missile and the other four as possible birds.
Detail
This document is a Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized form the U.S. military uses to record the circumstances of its operations. Such reports are commonly used to relay Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) observations to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), with the general-text (GENTEXT) section providing qualitative, contextual information.
The report, dated May 6, 2022, states that a U.S. military operator observed "5x UAP fly across the screen" in Iraq. One observation was described as a "possible missile" and the remaining four as "possible birds." All descriptive and estimative language reflects the reporter's subjective interpretation at the time and should not be read as a conclusive determination of any object features or performance.
The record was released to the public through the PURSUE declassification by the Department of War.
