Arabian Gulf

The Arabian (Persian) Gulf is one of the most heavily documented theaters in this archive. Multiple modern U.S. military mission reports (MISREPs) filed between 2020 and 2024 describe unidentified objects encountered by aircrews and warships in the area, several logged as 'range fouler' events that interrupted training operations.

Incidents at

• 2020-05-14DoW

  Range Fouler Debrief Form — Middle East Theater, May 2020

• 2020-07-16DoW

  Mission Report DOW-UAP-D65: Three UAP Observations in the Persian Gulf, July 16, 2020

• 2020-08-08DoW

  Mission Report: UAP Observation over the Persian Gulf, August 2020

• 2020-08-27DoW

  Mission Report: Formation of Unknown Flying Objects over the Persian Gulf, August 2020

• 2020-08-31DoW

  Range Fouler Debrief Form — Japan, 31 August 2023

• 2020-09-16DoW

  Mission Report DOW-UAP-D62: UAP Observation, Link-Loss Events, and Iranian Air-Defense Intercepts over the Strait of Hormuz, September 2020

• 2020-10-01DoW

  Mission Report DOW-UAP-D63: UAP Observation in the Strait of Hormuz, October 2020

• 2020-11-02DoW

  Mission Report DOW-UAP-D64: Two UAP over the Arabian Gulf during an IRGCN-Focused ISR Mission, November 2020

• 2023-10-31DoW

  Mission Report: UAP Observations Over the United Arab Emirates, October 2023

• N/ADoW

  Arabian Gulf UAP Mission Report, 2020 — Document DOW-UAP-D3

• N/ADoW

  Mission Report DOW-UAP-D4: Unidentified Aerial Object Sighting in the Arabian Gulf, 2020

• N/ADoW

  Mission Report DOW-UAP-D5: UAP Observations in the Arabian Gulf, 2020

• N/ADoW

  Mission Report DOW-UAP-D6: UAP Observation over the Arabian Gulf, 2020

• N/A (2020)DoW

  Mission Report DOW-UAP-D7: UAP Observation in the Arabian Gulf, 2020