Mission Report, Iraq, May 2022
A U.S. military operator in Iraq files a standardized mission report after tracking an unidentified object flying north to northeast — following it as long as possible before losing the ability to make a positive ID. The GENTEXT section is where the real detail lives, offering the operator's firsthand qualitative account beyond the bare numerical data logged elsewhere in the form. No conclusion is reached on what the object was, leaving this as a clean, unresolved observation from an active operational environment.
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 flying north to northeast. The observer reported following the UAP for as long as possible but was unable to positively identify it. 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.