Summary
This Mission Report (MISREP) records a U.S. military operator observing a single possible balloon at roughly 2,100 feet in Syria on February 21, 2023.
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 February 21, 2023, states that a U.S. military operator observed one "possible balloon" at approximately 2,100 feet in Syria. 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.
