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Iraq, September 20, 2024

September 20, 2024
Iraq

Explanation proposed
Representative drawing from the From orbit page, not this specific sighting.

The official description

While conducting a weapons calibration test, U.S. military operators reported observing a lens flare via MX-20 and MX-25 IR sensors after firing an AGM-176 Griffin air-to-surface missile. The operators described the source of the flare as a UAP moving through the aircraft’s sensor’s field-of-view at a high rate of speed. The reporter assessed that the flare was associated with “a significant heat source.”

Quoted from the U.S. Department of War, PURSUE UAP releases. Read every file for this incident in Official files or at war.gov/UFO.

Witnesses

U.S. military operators

Explanation

Explanation proposed

The official description notes: While conducting a weapons calibration test, U.S. military operators reported observing a lens flare via MX-20 and MX-25 IR sensors after firing an AGM-176 Griffin air-to-surface missile.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of War, PURSUE UAP releases (war.gov/UFO)war.gov
  2. U.S. Department of War, Release 01: DOW-UAP-D028, Mission Report, Iraq, September 2024war.gov

From the U.S. Department of War PURSUE releases. The description is quoted from the official file.