Department of War

Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, 2022

This is a one-page infrared-style still image submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO, reportedly from a U.S. military system in Iraq in 2022. The page has nine redaction boxes and declassification stamps but no narrative text. The catalogue description says an accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D106, describes the object's speed.

Record: DOW-UAP-PR131
Release: Release 06 · Sep 18, 2026
Incident: 2022 · Iraq
Pages: 1
Verdict: New
Source: war.gov ↗

Context · why this verdict

No earlier release in our archive matches this page, and it is a single still image with no narrative text. The substance is the catalogue description and the image itself, which carries little detail beyond that.

Findings in this document

1 finding

New SIG

CENTCOM submits 2022 Iraq infrared still of unidentified object to AARO

Verbatim
Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison
DOW-UAP-PR131 · Release 06 · page 1 · war.gov ↗
Verbatim
Approved for Release to AARO - FOUO / PA applies
DOW-UAP-PR131 · Release 06 · page 1 · war.gov ↗
Context
The catalogue description says U.S. Central Command submitted the report to AARO. It consists of a still image from an infrared system aboard a U.S. military system in 2022.
Context
The catalogue description says the companion mission report DOW-UAP-D106 described the object as flying sporadically at various speeds between 80-180 miles per hour.
Inference · AI interpretation
The page contains no narrative, so the speed claim cannot be checked from this page and depends on the companion document.

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

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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 · 9 redactions

A grayscale image, apparently from an infrared or night-vision sensor, showing a dark elongated object with a faint trailing streak in the upper right, with corner and center reticle marks and compass letters, under a declassification stamp. The page has no narrative text beyond the stamps and redaction boxes.

1.4a, 1.4g [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] [REDACTED (1.4a, 1.4g)] Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison USCENTCOM Chief of Staff Declassified on: 30 June 2026 FOIA, Privacy Act applies USCENTCOM MDR 26-0084 to 26-0095 Approved for Release to AARO - FOUO / PA applies 06/30/26 030