Date
2020
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
█ Heavily RedactedIssuing Authority
U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
Summary
A USCENTCOM mission report documenting a UAP observation during military operations in the Arabian Gulf in 2020. Released via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. D3 is the lowest-numbered DOW mission report in the publicly released PURSUE corpus, suggesting it may be among the earliest formally classified observations in the DOW-UAP series.
Significance
DOW-UAP-D3 is notable as the earliest-numbered DOW UAP mission report in the PURSUE Release 1 corpus. Its Arabian Gulf theater and 2020 date place it within the same operational cluster as D4, D5, D6, and D7 — five sequential reports from the same region and year, suggesting a period of elevated UAP observation activity by USCENTCOM naval and air assets in the Gulf.