DOW-UAP-D56, RANGE FOULER DEBRIEF, ARABIAN SEA, AUGUST 2020

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DOW-UAP-D56, RANGE FOULER DEBRIEF, ARABIAN SEA, AUGUST 2020 is a declassified record from the U.S. United States Navy, dated 2020-08-24, classification SECRET//DECLASSIFIED. It is part of PURSUE Release 01 — the Pentagon's first public unsealing of UAP records under the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters program, published on 2026-05-08 at war.gov/UFO/. UAP.WATCH has indexed the full text locally so the document can be read, searched, and cited without leaving the site.

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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison
USCENTCOM Chief of Staff
Declassified on: 20 March 2020

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Range Fouler Debrief Form

Please complete this form to the best of your ability. If you do not have the requested information, please leave the field blank. If there was more than one "group," please report each on a separate form for data collection purposes. You should receive a response within 5 business days.
Last Name, First Name: <empty>
Rank: O-3
Squadron: HSM-73
SIPR Email Address: <empty>
Crew Position: Pilot
This information is for contact only. SPEAR sanitizes all reports of identifying information. Absolutely no identifying information for aircrew or squadron will be recorded for analysis.
Date (mm/dd/yy): 08/24/20
Time of detection (hh:mm:ss Z): 00:04:30
Day / Night: Night
Side No.: 705
Buno: 168122
Mission Description (CAS, BFM, etc): SSC
LFE?: No
Contact Working Area (Ex: W-72 1A): 21440
Contact Latitute (DD:MM:SS): 21440
N/S: <empty>
Contact Longitude (DD:MM:SS): 1.4a
E/W: <empty>
Contact Altitude (Ex: 22000): <empty>
Altitude Constant?: Yes
Wind Dir at Contact Alt (From): 310
Wind Speed: 5
Please attempt to determine a Lat / Long for the contact at initial detection. We recommend using JMPs to reference the sensor-derived bearing and range relative to the bullseye you had in use. If that method is not available, any reasonable derivation of location will work, but please be as specific as possible and make a note in the comments section. These locations may be used to cue other means of tracking.
Was the contact moving?: Yes
Direction/Speed (Ex. 090/15): 270/UNK
Radar Equipped: Other
AIM-9x Self-Track: [ ]
Stable Trackfile?: No
ATFLIR Autotrack: [ ]
# of Contacts in "Group": 3
Tally Achieved: [ ]
Please check all that apply:

Round: [x]
Square: [ ]
Balloon-shaped: [ ]
Wings/Airframe: [x]
Other Shape: [ ]
Apparent Propulsion: [ ]
Moving Parts: [ ]
Metallic: [ ]
Markings: [ ]
Translucent: [ ]
Opaque: [ ]
Reflective: [ ]
EA Indications (Check all that apply):
[ ] ECM Arc
[ ] Letter Identifier
[ ] False Trackfiles
[ ] Other/Ambiguous
Please use the field below to describe the contact and any interaction in your own words with as much detail as possible. Please be sure to include any detail not included in questions above.
1.4a observed 3x possible unidentified small air contacts while conducting routine operations in the North Arabian Sea. Negative ES, radar track, and IFF track. Distance to contact was unknown. Speed of contact was unknown. Precise course of contact was unknown, but appeared to be on a westerly heading. No interaction took place between 1.4a and the unknown air contacts. Initially observed 1x unknown air contact and tracked it before losing sight as it went behind a cloud. When contact on the unknown air contact was regained, 2x additional unknown air contacts were seen due east of the location of the initial contact. All 3x unknown air contacts appeared to maintain their relative course, speed, and altitude.
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Thank you for your time. Please ensure all display tapes are ripped for the entire time of interaction and saved as a .wmv (Example: 4 May VFA-106 HUD.wmv). Squadron intel personnel shall upload those files to the repository located at this link.
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