Email Correspondence, NA, August 2024

This is the shortest of the email exchanges in the release about clearing UAP summaries for publication, and it turns on a single detail: the year. An information disclosure analyst had already been given approval to use the month and day of a sighting in an unclassified summary, and wrote back asking to include the year as well. A PAROC intelligence data analysis technician in 15th Air Force’s Detachment 1 replied with the revised, unclassified tearline.

What the cleared text says

The approved text reads, in full, that on 31 October 2024 a US aircraft observed a possible UAP that appeared oval or orb-shaped, was “likely moving at a low speed,” and was kept in view for over two hours. Nothing else about the platform, location, sensors or outcome is included, and the emails do not say what kind of aircraft made the observation or where.

Points to note

The release titles the file “August 2024,” but the cleared text dates the sighting to October 31, 2024, which matches the catalogue’s incident date. Despite the length of the observation, the summary gives no detail of what was seen in that time. Like DOW-UAP-D050, the file mainly shows how much is removed before a military UAP report reaches the public. The term “tearline” means a passage written to be released separately from its classified report.