Glare and a "misshapen ball of white light" cross an ISR camera over Syria (20 October 2024)
A 12th Special Operations Squadron ISR aircraft flew from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan, for Operation Inherent Resolve. It was orbiting at 20,088 ft and 144 knots over Syria. Between 1559Z and 1644Z on 20 October 2024 its crew saw "multiple glares or light from unknown origin at different angles and directions". Single lights or glares crossed the full-motion video camera at 1559Z, 1602Z and 1644Z, and a halo effect appeared at the top of the feed at 1609Z and 1620Z. The crew described a "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" and logged its physical state as "Plasma". They assessed it as benign and specifically "not to be a lasing event". The weather was clear. war.gov publishes the same PDF six times: three copies as DOW-UAP-D32 and three as PR31, PR32 and PR33. The report itself reads like an optical effect on the camera, but it does not say so. *Method note: war.gov blocks this server. Each mission report was read from the original PDF served by the ufotransparency.com mirror. Quotations come from the PDF text layer and were checked against the page images where the scan is poor. Redactions are shown as [redacted]. Field names such as "Observer Assessment of UAP" are the form's own labels.*
How plausible · Moderate
An official mission report from an identified ISR crew records repeated lights over 45 minutes; no footage released.
- ●●Access 12 SOS aircrew on the mission.
- ●●No gain sought Official record.
- ●●Checkable details check out Released in PURSUE.
- ●○Restraint "Unknown origin", "not a laser".
- ●○Character record Official report, names withheld.
- ●○Fits the documented skeleton Part of the documented PURSUE record.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- "AT 1559Z, (b)(1)1.4a OBSERVED AN UNIDENTIFIED ARRIEAL PHENOMENON (SEE UAP 1)." (DOW-UAP-D32, p. 1) ("ARRIEAL" sic)
- "FROM 1559Z-1644Z, (b)(1)1.4a OBSERVED MULTIPLE GLARES OR LIGHT FROM UNKNOWN ORIGIN AT DIFFERENT ANGLES AND DIRECTIONS. AT 1559Z, 1602Z AND AT 1644Z, (b)(1)1.4a OBSERVED 1X LIGHT/GLARE CROSSED DIRECTLY ON THE FMV CAMERA. AT 1609Z AND 1620Z, (b)(1)1.4a OBSERVED A LIGHT/GLARE HALO EFFECT AT THE TOP OF (b)(1)1.4a FMV FEED. AIRCREW CONSIDERED THIS NO MISSION IMPACT OR CHANGE AND UAP WAS BENIGN." (DOW-UAP-D32, p. 9)
- "MISHAPEN AND UNEVEN BALL OF WHITE LIGHT." (DOW-UAP-D32, p. 9) (UAP Description field)
- "LIGHT/GLARE FROM UNKNOWN ORIGIN FLASHED ACCROSS FMV CAMERA FEED. AIRCREW ASSESSED THIS NOT TO BE A LASING EVENT." (DOW-UAP-D32, p. 8)
- UAP block: Initial Contact DTG 201559:00ZOCT24; friendly aircraft 20,088FT, ORBIT, 144 KNOTS; "UAP Response to Observer Actions: NO CHANGE"; "Observer Assessment of UAP: Benign"; "UAP Physical State: Plasma"; "UAP Under Intelligent Control ...: NO"; "UAP Signatures: LIGHT"; serial "201559ZOCT2024". (DOW-UAP-D32, pp. 7-8)
- Weather "CLEAR WX"; originator "12 SOS"; MAJCOM AFSOC; took off and landed at OJMS; declassified 24 October 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison; release stamp "USCENTCOM MDR 25-0100 thru 25-0103 / JS-250710-TM8S 10/28/25". (DOW-UAP-D32, pp. 1-2, 5-7)Two range foulers circle each other, vanish "in 1/30th of a second", with strobes and noise jamming (27 October 2020)
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Sources
- war.gov/ufo, PURSUE Release 01 listing (8 May 2026; not reachable from this server)
- Mirror file list for Release 01 (ufotransparency.com)
- DOW-UAP-D32 (war.gov), mirror page with the official description
- DOW-UAP-D32 original file, via mirror
- DOW-UAP-D32 (war.gov), mirror page with the official description
- DOW-UAP-D32 original file, via mirror