Dept. of DefenseUnresolved

UAP sighting 3 — Persian Gulf/Arabian Gulf area, 2345Z 16 Jul 2020

Jul 16, 2020Arabian Gulf (MGRS 39RUN, redacted grid) (approx.)19,100 ft

Analysis — our summary

A third UAP observation was logged at 2345Z on 16 July 2020, the final UAP event of mission Misrep 4472514 over the Arabian Gulf. The aircraft was at FL191 and airspeed 115 KIAS, heading 331M. Observed activity location given as MGRS 39RUN with sub-grid partially legible (39RUN6234236874 appears in OCR but may be garbled). No physical description of the UAP is recoverable from the document.

As reported — verbatim from the document

“"AT [2345Z] [REDACTED] OBSERVED AN UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENON IVO 39RUN6234236874"”

Analyst notes — caveats & confidence

Third of three UAP observations in Misrep 4472514. The MGRS coordinate string '39RUN6234236874' appears in the OCR but may be a garbled artifact; treated as approximate Arabian Gulf centroid only. No UAP physical description available. Declassification date 20450301 (USCENTCOM MDR 26-0028). Confidence slightly lower due to possible OCR corruption of grid reference.

Provenance

Source documentDOW-UAP-D65-Mission-Report-Persian-Gulf-July-2020.pdf

Document typeMISREP

Reporting agencyDept. of Defense

Source pages8

DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)

Held classified~6 years (≥, to this release)

Extraction confidence LowHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.