Department of War

Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, 2022

This is a one-page infrared still image submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO. It shows a sensor display with a reticle and a compass marker, and a small dark elongated feature near the lower left. The catalogue links it to a mission report, DOW-UAP-D106, and the page carries redactions and declassification stamps.

Record: DOW-UAP-PR130
Release: Release 06 · Sep 18, 2026
Incident: 2022 · Iraq
Pages: 1
Verdict: New
Source: war.gov ↗

Context · why this verdict

The page is a single infrared still with no overlap in earlier releases, so it is new to the archive. Its content is limited to an image, redaction marks and release stamps, with no analytic text.

Findings in this document

1 finding

New SIG

Single 2022 Iraq infrared still, linked to mission report D106

Verbatim
Declassified by MG Richard A. Hanson, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, Declassified on 30 June 2026, FOUO / Privacy Act applies
DOW-UAP-PR130 · Release 06 · page 1 · war.gov ↗
Context
The catalogue description says USCENTCOM submitted the still to AARO from an infrared system aboard a U.S. military system in 2022. It cites mission report DOW-UAP-D106, which describes the UAP as "flying sporadically… at various speeds between 80-180 miles per hour.
Context
The agency's image description notes that the apparent trail is consistent with known image-compression and processing effects and does not necessarily represent a physical feature.
Inference · AI interpretation
The page alone gives no scale, range or timing, so the speeds in the companion report cannot be checked against this image.

New or already public? The overlap check found no matching page in earlier releases.

Page by page

The pages and what the AI read on them

The transcription is the page reader's: black bars mark what the government redacted; hatched tags mark personal data we removed.

Page 1 of 1 · 6 redactions

This page is a black-and-white image, apparently an infrared or night-vision still of a dark, cloudy or hazy field with a bright central area, a crosshair overlay, a compass 'N' marker and a small dark elongated object near the lower left. Several redaction boxes and the USCENTCOM declassification and release stamps appear on the page.

DJ [REDACTED (1,4a, 1,4g)] [REDACTED (1,4a, 1,4g)] [REDACTED (1,4a, 1,4g)] [REDACTED (1,4a, 1,4g)] USCENTCOM MDR-2026-0001 [REDACTED] Approved for Release to AARO - POUO / PA applies [REDACTED (1,4a, 1,4g)] 06/30/26 029 Declassified by MG Richard A. Hanson, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, Declassified on 30 June 2026, FOUO / Privacy Act applies