Summary
This Mission Report (MISREP) describes U.S. military operators noticing a lens flare on their MX-20 and MX-25 infrared sensors after firing an AGM-176 Griffin missile during a weapons calibration test in Iraq on September 20, 2024. The operators attributed the flare to a UAP that crossed the sensor's field of view at high speed and assessed it as associated with a significant heat source.
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 September 20, 2024, states that while conducting a weapons calibration test in Iraq, U.S. military operators observed a lens flare via MX-20 and MX-25 infrared sensors after firing an AGM-176 Griffin air-to-surface missile. They described the source of the flare as a UAP moving through the aircraft sensor's field of view at high speed and assessed that it was associated with "a significant heat source." 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.
