UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RELEASERELEASE 01 · MAY 8, 2026
PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D050Email Correspondence, INDOPACOM, April 2025
This short email exchange shows how the Pentagon turns a classified mission report into a sentence the public can read. An information disclosure analyst in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security asks a PAROC intelligence data analysis team lead at 12th Air Force, Detachment 3, to confirm two things: that the “tearlines” are unclassified, and that the report can say the sightings happened in INDOPACOM, the US command covering the Indo-Pacific.
What was cleared
A tearline is a passage written so that it can be torn away from a classified report and shared more widely. The team lead replies that, after a phone call with the unit that flies the aircraft (its name is redacted), both tearlines and the INDOPACOM label are approved at the unclassified level. The two cleared summaries are almost identical. On April 10, 2025, at 2353Z, a US aircraft watched one possible UAP for 12 seconds; on April 11, at 0007Z, it watched one for 23 seconds. In both cases the altitude and speed were unknown and no interference was noted.
Why it is here
The file contains no imagery and no further description. Its value is procedural: it shows that even the region named in a public UAP summary may need explicit sign-off, and how little detail can survive the process. For similar exchanges, see DOW-UAP-D051 and DOW-UAP-D052.
The official description
From war.gov/UFO, released May 8, 2026, quoted in full
This document is email correspondence describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification on its content. 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.