Strait of Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz — the Persian Gulf's strategic chokepoint — is documented in several 2020 Department of War mission reports describing unidentified objects near U.S. naval operations in the region.

Incidents at

• 2020-07-16DoW

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

• 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