Date
2025
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
▐ Partially RedactedIssuing Authority
U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) / Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa
Summary
A USAFRICOM mission report documenting a UAP observation near Djibouti in 2025. Released as DOW-UAP-D8 via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. Djibouti hosts Camp Lemonnier — the only permanent U.S. military base in Africa — along with bases from China, France, Japan, and Italy. The camp serves as the primary hub for U.S. drone operations over Somalia and Yemen, and sits at the strategic Gulf of Aden chokepoint. DOW-UAP-D8 is the only African continent UAP mission report in PURSUE Release 1 and one of the most recent documents in the corpus, establishing the Horn of Africa as a documented UAP theater.
Significance
DOW-UAP-D8 introduces a new continent and a new combatant command (AFRICOM) to the PURSUE UAP mission report record. The Djibouti context — with its extraordinary concentration of foreign military bases, proximity to active Houthi drone operations from Yemen, and location at one of the world's most strategic maritime chokepoints — makes DOW-UAP-D8 one of the geopolitically richest reports in the PURSUE corpus.