Summary
This Mission Report (MISREP) records a U.S. military operator observing a single possible UAP flying from west to east in Iraq on December 1, 2022. The observer did not pursue the object.
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 December 1, 2022, states that a U.S. military operator observed one "possible UAP" flying from west to east in Iraq. The observer did not pursue it. 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.
