Email Correspondence, Pacific Time Zone, March 2023

In this email chain, an information disclosure analyst at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security asks the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) to let a summary of one of its classified Intelligence Information Reports (IIRs) be used at the unclassified level. The AFOSI program manager first warns that declassifying an IIR is slow and needs the AFOSI commander’s signature, then reports that headquarters agreed to treat it as a “derivative classification review” instead, and approves the summary.

The sighting being cleared

The summary describes a civilian’s night-time sighting in March 2023, in the Pacific Time Zone, lasting about eight minutes. The witness reported a large, blue, featureless triangle with a solid silhouette, giving off powerful “whitish blue” light from points around its edge. It hovered above or near a national security facility for about three minutes, then moved higher in a “jerking” or “jumping” way the witness contrasted with “smooth” jet flight. The witness could not tell how it was controlled or propelled or which end was the front, and said they “didn’t think” it was a drone.

Reading it

The summary also records claims about things the witness did not directly observe, such as that it had no data-collection ability or vapor trail. The source field reads “personal cellular device,” and the release gives the date as 3/23/26, while the summary itself says March 2023. Compare the military clearances in DOW-UAP-D050.