DOW-UAP-D56: Range Fouler Debrief — Arabian Sea, August 2020
Date
August 2020
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
█ Heavily RedactedIssuing Authority
U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
Summary
A USCENTCOM Range Fouler Debrief documenting a UAP intrusion into active U.S. military training airspace in the Arabian Sea in August 2020. Released via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. D56 is one of five Range Fouler Debriefs in the PURSUE corpus (alongside D38, D42, D44, D58), documenting a category of incident in which an unidentified aerial object entered a live military training exercise area.
Significance
DOW-UAP-D56 extends the Range Fouler Debrief category of the DOW-UAP corpus into the Arabian Sea theater in August 2020. Range Fouler Debriefs represent a distinct document type from standard mission reports — they document UAP intrusions into active training airspace where military aircraft are engaged in live-fire or tactical exercises, raising the operational safety stakes of the encounter.