DOW-UAP-D55: Mission Report — Syria, November 2016
Date
November 2016
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 by U.S. military surveillance assets during operations in Syria in November 2016. Released as DOW-UAP-D55 via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. DOW-UAP-D55 is chronologically the earliest named CENTCOM-theater UAP mission report in the PURSUE corpus — predating both the D64 report from Iran (November 2020) and the formal post-2019 DoD UAP reporting reforms. Its existence as a formal classified UAP mission report from November 2016 demonstrates that military UAP observation documentation predates the commonly cited 2019-2020 formalization of reporting protocols.
Significance
DOW-UAP-D55 is the most historically significant DOW mission report in PURSUE Release 1 for one specific reason: its November 2016 date establishes that formal military UAP mission report documentation in the CENTCOM theater predates both the 2019 Navy UAP reporting reforms and Kirsten Gillibrand's NDAA UAP amendments. Syria in November 2016 was among the most complex and contested military environments in the world — the observation is set against Russian, Syrian, ISIS, and U.S. simultaneous operations.