Summary
This Mission Report (MISREP) records a U.S. military operator observing a single UAP flying north to northeast in Iraq on May 20, 2022. The observer tracked the object as long as possible but could not positively identify it.
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 20, 2022, states that a U.S. military operator observed one UAP flying from north to northeast in Iraq. The observer followed it for as long as possible but was unable to positively identify it. All descriptive and estimative language reflects the reporter's subjective interpretation at the time and should not be taken as conclusive evidence of any intrinsic features or performance.
The record was released to the public through the PURSUE declassification by the Department of War.
