DOW-UAP-D18: Mission Report — Iraq, December 2022
Date
December 2022
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
▐ Partially RedactedIssuing Authority
U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
Summary
A USCENTCOM mission report documenting a UAP observation in Iraq in December 2022. Released via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. D18 extends the Iraq UAP reporting record within the PURSUE corpus beyond the May 2022 cluster (D12, D14), demonstrating that formal USCENTCOM UAP logging in the Iraq theater continued through the end of 2022.
Significance
DOW-UAP-D18 is the latest of the three Iraq-theater DOW mission reports in PURSUE Release 1, following D12 and D14 from May 2022. Its December 2022 date confirms that USCENTCOM was formally documenting UAP observations in Iraq through at least the end of that year, spanning the full second half of 2022.