Date
2023
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 2023. Released via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. D20 extends the Iraq UAP reporting record into 2023, joining D12 and D14 (May 2022) and D18 (December 2022) as the fourth Iraq-theater DOW mission report in the PURSUE corpus.
Significance
DOW-UAP-D20 confirms that USCENTCOM UAP observation logging in Iraq continued into 2023, building on the cluster established by D12, D14, and D18. The Iraq theater thus has the highest single-country DOW mission report count in PURSUE Release 1 — four formally documented observations across 2022 and 2023.
Source: https://www.war.gov/UFO/