A triangular, metallic UAP over the Aegean during return to base (date withheld)
Seven pages of this mission report are almost entirely redacted. Only the UAP block on page 7 survives. During return to base at 1319Z, an aircraft whose name is redacted observed one UAP while passing over 36°34'53"N 25°59'43"E, which lies in the Aegean among the Cyclades islands. The UAP was described only as "triangular and metallic". The report gives an altitude of 24,989 ft MSL and a speed of 168 knots, but the sentence is ambiguous: these may be the aircraft's figures rather than the UAP's. The 168-knot speed fits the crewed and uncrewed ISR aircraft seen in the other reports. The date, unit and sensor are all redacted, and war.gov's own title gives no date ("NA"). *Method note: war.gov blocks this server. This mission report was read from the original PDF served by the ufotransparency.com mirror. Most of its pages are image-only or blacked out, so the quotations were read from the rendered page images. Redactions are shown as [redacted].*
Evidence, in date order (1)
- Redacted aircraft mission report (Department of War)documentofficial report DOW-UAP-D54 logging the UAP DOW-UAP-D54 original file, via mirror
How plausible · Moderate
A redacted mission report records a triangular metallic UAP during return to base.
- ●●Access The ISR crew tracked it on their own sensor.
- ●●No gain sought An official reporting form.
- ●●Checkable details check out Released in PURSUE.
- ●○Restraint Describes motion and signature, no explanation.
- ●○Character record An official report; crew names withheld.
- ●○Fits the documented skeleton Part of the documented Range Fouler and 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
- "1X UAP DETECTED WITH DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION SUCH AS BEING A TRIANGLUAR AND METALLIC UAP." (DOW-UAP-D54, p. 7) (UAP Description field; [sic] "TRIANGLUAR")
- "DURING RTB AT 1319Z, [redacted] OBSERVED 1X UAP WHILE TRANSITING OVER 363453N 0255943E FLYING AT AN ALTITUDE OF 24,989FT MSL AND SPEED OF 168KTS." (DOW-UAP-D54, p. 7) (Gentext)
- Pages 1-6 carry only 1.4(a) redaction labels; page 7 has the UAP fields under a SECRET//NOFORN marking that has been struck through. (DOW-UAP-D54, pp. 1-7, read from the page images)