UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RELEASERELEASE 01 · MAY 8, 2026
PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D014Mission Report, Iraq, May 2022
This MISREP covers a 20-hour, 30-minute intelligence sortie on 29–30 May 2022. Unlike the Iraq reports in this group, the aircraft took off from Sigonella in Sicily and worked under U.S. European Command, collecting imagery over the eastern Mediterranean on Syrian navy activity. The originating unit is the 50th Attack Squadron. The release titles the file “Iraq” and its metadata lists Syria; the report itself does not mention Iraq.
A busy night
The narrative logs several events. At 2147Z the aircraft was “reacted to” by one to three aircraft, including a possible Russian Su-30. At 0011Z the crew watched what they judged to be a Su-27 or Su-35 fighter landing at an airfield given as Al Assad (the report’s target list includes Bassel al-Assad airfield on the Syrian coast). At 0117Z, flying at 24,000 feet, they saw “one possible small UAP” flying north to northeast; they followed it as long as they could, but the screener could not identify it. No signatures are listed.
The weather was not a factor. The aircraft returned to Sigonella the next morning.
Which object is the UAP
The release’s video for this report, DOW-UAP-PR021, is described as showing the report’s “probable SU-27/35,” which in the report itself is a separate observation from the possible UAP. Readers should keep the two entries apart. The UAP wording is almost word for word the same as in DOW-UAP-D012, filed nine days earlier by a different squadron.
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 one UAP flying north to northeast. The observer reported following the UAP for as long as possible but was unable to positively identify it. 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.