UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RELEASERELEASE 01 · MAY 8, 2026
PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D035Mission Report, Greece, October 2023
This is the second of two 2023 Aegean mission reports from the 33rd Special Operations Squadron. The aircraft took off from LGLR, Larissa in Greece, on October 28, flew a surveillance tasking and, at 0811Z on October 29, while returning to base, logged one possible UAP. It landed back at Larissa after just over 20 mission hours.
What the crew saw
The free text says the crew saw a UAP flying just above the ocean surface and heading toward land, and that they lost it from their feed in the same minute. The description field repeats the earlier report’s phrase: “seemingly circular, too small to make out details.” The form lists no maneuvers, no response to the aircraft, no signatures, a solid physical state, unknown propulsion and an assessment of benign. In the kinematic fields the crew entered a speed of 30 mph, a figure that AARO’s summary leaves out.
Read alongside D033
Two nights earlier the same squadron reported a similar small object turning sharply over the water (DOW-UAP-D033). Because the free text is nearly identical, the two forms give little independent detail on whether the objects themselves were alike. Neither includes imagery, and the position grids are redacted. A MISREP is an operational record written soon after the flight; it records what the crew believed they saw, not the outcome of an analysis.
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 a UAP “flying just above the surface of the ocean.” The report describes the UAP as “[flying] straight above the ocean towards lands.” 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.