DOW-UAP-D64: Mission Report — Iran, November 2020
Date
November 2020
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
▐ Partially RedactedIssuing Authority
USCENTCOM (Declassifying Authority)
Summary
A USCENTCOM mission report documenting an unidentified aerial phenomenon over or near Iran in November 2020. Declassified under the PURSUE executive directive and released publicly at war.gov/UFO on May 8, 2026, D64 is the highest-numbered named mission report in PURSUE Release 1 and the earliest by date among the four named CENTCOM UAP documents. November 2020 falls during the final weeks of the Trump administration's first term and the period of maximum U.S.-Iran tensions following the January 2020 killing of Qasem Soleimani.
Significance
DOW-UAP-D64 establishes that formally documented U.S. military UAP encounters over Iranian airspace extended at least to late 2020. The D64 identifier is notable as the highest-numbered document in Release 1, suggesting the military's UAP mission report series began well before 2020 and that dozens of numbered reports (D1 through D63) remain either classified or not yet released. The geopolitical context — maximum U.S.-Iran tensions in late 2020 — makes any air domain anomaly in that theater operationally significant. Its inclusion in PURSUE Release 1 confirms CENTCOM maintained consistent UAP documentation practices across multiple theaters and time periods.