Range Fouler Reporting Form, Gulf of Aden, September 2020

This document is a Range Fouler Reporting Form, 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. A U.S. military operator reported tracking a “round, cold object” over the Gulf of Aden for eight minutes via “black hot” IR sensor, making the UAP appear “bright white.” The report states that the UAP was “traveling 168 degrees at 277 mph” and “made a few abrupt directional changes” during the encounter. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the…

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Record

DOW-UAP-D057

Release

Release 01 · May 8, 2026

Incident

2020-09-04 · Gulf of Aden

Pages

1

Verdict

not judged yet

Source

war.gov ↗