Mission Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023
A U.S. military operator filed this standardized Mission Report after observing a single UAP over the Arabian Gulf on Halloween 2023. The GENTEXT section is worth particular attention — it's where the reporting operator describes what they actually saw in their own words, beyond the checkboxes and coordinates. As one of the primary intake formats AARO uses to collect UAP data from active-duty personnel, this record offers a ground-level view of how these encounters get documented in real time.
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. 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.