Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States, 2019
A Navy range fouler debrief documents the moment five military personnel watched something small, fast, and traveling in the opposite direction of their platform intrude into controlled airspace during active operations. The witness — drawing on 28 years across both the Air Force and Navy — describes flight characteristics outside anything in that combined experience, and notes that equally seasoned colleagues couldn't identify it either. The debrief pairs with a released video (DOW-UAP-PR112), making this one of the relatively rare cases where a written account and visual record exist side by side.
This document is a Range Fouler Debrief, a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training. These reports contain a narrative description of the observer’s experiences. This report accompanies the video titled “DOW-UAP-PR112.”
Five U.S. military-affiliated personnel reported observing an object “with flight characteristics unlike anything [the observer] had seen in 28 years [of service] for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. The report characterizes the phenomenon as “small” and “travelling in a straight line opposite [the platform’s] direction at high speed.” The reporter added that, “others with equal or more experience were also unsure as to what the object might be.”
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.