Iraq Military UAP Encounter (May 2022 [2022]) — Mission Report
An AARO disclosure era case from Iraq. This document is a Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized reporting form the U.
Background
In May 2022, in Iraq, U.S. government investigators recorded an unidentified-object incident later released to the public on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is a case from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office disclosure era following the 2022 establishment of the modern UAP investigative apparatus. The case appears in U.S. Department of Defense documents.
What the document records
This document is a Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized reporting form the U.S. Military uses to record the circumstances surrounding its operations. U.S.
The number of witnesses is not specified in the released document.
Type of case
The case is a visual sighting reported by ground or air observers.
Status
All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) by default. The federal government has not concluded that the events were anomalous, has not concluded that they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series in the late 1940s), atmospheric optical phenomena such as sundogs and lenticular clouds, and astronomical objects including Venus, the Moon, and meteors near the horizon.