UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RELEASERELEASE 01 · MAY 8, 2026
PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D008Mission Report, Djibouti, 2025
This redacted 2025 MISREP is titled for Djibouti, while the release’s metadata places it in the Mediterranean Sea. Like other reports in this group, nearly everything outside the UAP section is blacked out, including the reporting aircraft and unit.
The sighting
At 1653Z (UTC) the crew observed two UAP and described them as round and “white hot,” a term from infrared imaging meaning that warmer objects appear bright white against a cooler background. The pair were moving south at roughly 240 nautical miles per hour, which is to say about 240 knots, and the position is given only as a military grid reference.
There is no altitude, size, duration or account of how the speed was estimated, and nothing on whether the crew followed the objects. The free-text description and the event summary repeat the same facts in almost the same words.
A detail in the markings
The classification line reads SECRET and releasable to the USA, Finland, Sweden, the Five Eyes and NATO — a sign the information was meant to be shared with allies, including the two Nordic countries that joined NATO recently. The report offers no explanation, and the release stresses that all descriptions are the observer’s impressions. Compare DOW-UAP-D005, which also logged a pair of objects.
The official description
From war.gov/UFO, released May 8, 2026, quoted in full
This document is a Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized reporting form the U.S. Military uses to record the circumstances surrounding its operations. U.S. military services often use MISREPs to report Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to AARO. The GENTEXT, or “general text” section of these reports often contains important qualitative, contextual information, distinguishing it from the more quantitative, or numerical, data found elsewhere in the report. A U.S. military operator reported observing two “white hot UAPs.” The reporter estimated the UAP’s speed as approximately 240 nautical miles per hour (276 mph). All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.