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This declassified U.S. Central Command mission report (MISREP) covers a U.S. Air Force ISR flight under Operation Inherent Resolve on 9 November 2023, released to AARO after a mandatory declassification review in June 2025. Heavily redacted entries describe full motion video and SIGINT collection against vehicles and persons of interest. While returning to base at 2153Z, the crew saw a solid UAP shaped like a bouncy ball that passed their aircraft at about 424 knots for seven minutes. They judged it benign and no threat.
From the source: Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 11/9/23, Syria. Released with redactions. 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 “shaped as a bouncy ball.” The observer described the UAP as traveling “~424kn (483 mph) consistently for at least 7mins.” The reporter described the UAP approaching from the south. The operator assessed the object as “benign.” 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.
USCENTCOM MDR 25-007206/02/2025 000005SECRET//NOFORN • Aircraft Tail Number(s): 1.4a • Takeoff Location (ICAO Code): 1.4a • Takeoff Time DTG: 090217:00ZNOV23 • Mode 3 (IFF Codes): 1.4a • Gentext/Additional Details: • Mission Canceled: Landing • Last Land Location (ICAO Code): • Last Land Time: 1.4a • Last Engine Shutdown Time: • Total Mission Time: 1.4a • Gentext/Additional Details: 1.4a 1.4a On Station • Time On Station DTG: • Callsign: 1.4a • JTAR Number: - • Killbox (Location): - • Mission Type: ISR • JTAC Callsign: 1.4a • Gentext/Additional Details: • Did not Arrive On Station: On Off Station • Time Off Station DTG: • Total Time On Station: • Gentext/Additional Details: On Station • Time On Station DTG: 090431:00ZNOV23 • Callsign: 1.4a • JTAR Number: - • Killbox (Location): - • Mission Type: ISR • JTAC Callsign: 1.4a • Gentext/Additional Details: • Did not Arrive On Station: 3.5c, (b)(6) SECRET//NOFORNApproved for Release to AARO - FOUO/PARecommendation by MG Brandon R. Tegtmeier USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Recommended on: 2 June 2025 FOUO / Privacy Act applies
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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.