One UAP on full-motion video off Bushehr, Iran, on a mission with two lost-link events (16 September 2020)
This is a mission report (MISREP 4782130) from the 482nd Attack Squadron. The aircraft took off from OKAS at 2302Z on 15 September 2020. At 1732Z on 16 September, flying at FL180 and 90 knots, the crew observed "a UAP" on full-motion video in grid 39R VM. The report says nothing else about it: the observation block lists only "UAP". The weather was not a factor. The same mission received three guard calls, two of them "DIRECTIVE" in tone. It also lost its data link twice, at 1248Z-1259Z and 1414Z-1441Z, with "UNKNOWN" interference and a "MEDIUM" mission impact. Those events came hours before the UAP sighting, and the report does not link them. A Release 02 video, DOW-UAP-PR085, is titled "16 Sept 2020 ... observes UAP" and is described as FMV from CENTCOM. It may be this event, but the release does not say so. *Method note: war.gov blocks this server. The mission report was read from the original PDF served by the ufotransparency.com mirror. It is a scan with a noisy OCR text layer; quotations were corrected against the page images where the OCR garbles them. Redactions are shown as [redacted].*
Evidence, in date order (2)
- 16 Sept 2020482nd Attack Squadron mission report (Department of War)documentofficial report DOW-UAP-D62 logging the UAP DOW-UAP-D62 original file, via mirror
- 16 Sept 2020Department of Warsensor dataDOW-UAP-PR085 FMV video titled 16 Sept 2020, possibly this event (not linked by the release) A full-motion video of a UAP zoomed and tracked (16 September 2020)
How plausible · High
A mission report logs a UAP on full-motion video; a released video may show it.
- ●●Access The ISR crew tracked it on their own sensor.
- ●●No gain sought An official reporting form.
- ●●Checkable details check out Released in PURSUE.
- ●●Physical traces or official reaction Sensor track with video confirmed.
- ●○Restraint Describes motion and signature, no explanation.
- ●○Character record An official report; crew names withheld.
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 1732Z, [redacted] OBSERVED A UAP. SEE OBS LINE 1." (DOW-UAP-D62, p. 1; OCR slips in the text layer corrected)
- "AT 1732Z, [redacted] OBSERVED A UAP IVO 39RVM51[redacted]" (DOW-UAP-D62, p. 8; OCR slips in the text layer corrected); observation DTG 161732:00ZSEP20; aircraft FL 180, 90 KIAS; "Observed Activity Description: UAP"; method FMV.
- "WEATHER WAS NOT A FACTOR" (DOW-UAP-D62, p. 5; OCR slips in the text layer corrected)
- EMI lines: 161248Z-161259Z and 161414Z-161441Z, "Type of EMI: UNKNOWN", "EMI Impact to System: Complete", "Mission Impact: MEDIUM". The gentext of the second reads "AT 1414Z, [redacted] EXPERIENCED LOST LINK TO POSSIBL[redacted]" and is cut off by redaction. (DOW-UAP-D62, pp. 7-8; OCR text checked)
- Guard calls at 0408Z and 0421Z ("DIRECTIVE") and 1141Z ("PROFESSIONAL"). Declassified 22 January 2026; release stamp MDR 26-0019. (DOW-UAP-D62, pp. 1, 6-7)