DOW-UAP-D14: Iraq UAP Mission Report
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TL;DR
DOW-UAP-D14 is a declassified U.S. military mission report documenting 'one possible small UAP' crossing surveillance sensor coverage in Iraq in May 2022, released in PURSUE Release 1 as one of four named CENTCOM-theater mission reports - and the DOW-UAP-D[NN] naming convention with at least D64 confirmed implies 64+ similarly documented military UAP incidents.
Confirmed
- ✓DOW-UAP-D14 is a formally classified U.S. military mission report documenting 'one possible small UAP' crossing surveillance sensors in Iraq, May 2022
- ✓The document was released publicly via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026
- ✓DOW-UAP-D14 is one of four named CENTCOM-theater mission reports in PURSUE Release 1, spanning November 2020 to January 2024
- ✓The DOW-UAP-D[NN] naming convention with at least D64 confirmed implies a sequential system with 64+ documented military UAP incidents
Unresolved
- ?Whether the object was a commercial drone, adversary UAS, or something genuinely anomalous - only 'possible' certainty is asserted in the document itself
- ?What the full DOW-UAP series (up to at least D64) documents, as only four entries have been publicly released
- ?Why all four named PURSUE Release 1 mission reports are from the CENTCOM theater specifically
Strongest mundane explanation
The object was a commercial off-the-shelf drone or improvised UAS operated by a non-state actor in Iraq's complex 2022 airspace - consistent with the 'small' size descriptor and the theater's extensive UAS activity - though a standard commercial drone would normally be resolved immediately by trained U.S. military sensor operators, making the formal UAP designation notable.
In May 2022, U.S. military surveillance systems operating in Iraq recorded 'one possible small UAP' crossing their sensor coverage area during an unrelated military operation. The incident was documented in a formal mission report designated DOW-UAP-D14, originally classified and released publicly via the PURSUE initiative on May 8, 2026. It is one of four named mission reports from the CENTCOM theater in PURSUE Release 1 — alongside DOW-UAP-D25 (Greece, Jan 2024), DOW-UAP-D27 (UAE, Oct 2023), and DOW-UAP-D64 (Iran, Nov 2020) — and represents the first direct public release of active military UAP mission documentation from named, geographically identified operations.
Key Facts
- ›Document identifier: DOW-UAP-D14; location: Iraq; date: May 2022
- ›Describes 'one possible small UAP' crossing U.S. military surveillance systems during an unrelated military operation
- ›Originally classified; declassified and released publicly via PURSUE Release 1, May 8, 2026
- ›One of four named CENTCOM-theater mission reports in PURSUE Release 1 spanning November 2020 to January 2024
- ›The DOW-UAP-D[NN] naming convention — with at least D64 confirmed — implies a sequential classification system with 64+ documented military UAP incidents
- ›USCENTCOM accounts for four of four named mission reports in Release 1, suggesting an elevated CENTCOM reporting rate