CASE FILE D-16
July 2022: The Syria UAP Report the Military Redacted
2026-08-14 · Declassified UAP records
In July 2022, a U.S. military aircraft during Operation Inherent Resolve operating over Syria recorded an unidentified object its crew could not explain.
The encounter is documented in an official USCENTCOM mission report, declassified and released through AARO — the Pentagon's UAP office.
The report confirms the crew observed an unidentified aerial phenomenon ivo 37sfu271w'7~(see uap. But the specifics — position, sensors, identities — are withheld under national-security and privacy exemptions.
Below is the document itself, reconstructed with the redactions preserved, followed by the full narration transcript and the approximate location of the encounter.
The Document
SECRET//NOFORN July 2022
UAP Mission Report — Syria (July 2022)
Narrative
AT 301639ZJUL22, TF CHOSIN TASKED ████████1.4a WITH IMINT VIA 7 LINE. AT 301822ZJUL22, MUWAFFAQ SALTI AB (OJMS). AT 301829ZJUL22, ██████ HANDED OVER FROM THE LRE. AT 301925ZJUL22, I ████████1.4a BEGAN SIGINT COLLECT. AT 302028ZJUL22 ██████ VED ON STATION AND CHECKED IN WITH TF CHOSIN STA TO PERFORM IMINT IVO 37SFU3 ██████ 1 ██████ (SEE ISR 1). AT 310239ZJUL22, ██████ OBSERVED AN UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENON IVO ██████ (SEE UAP 1). AT 311343ZJUL22, ██████ RETURNED TO BASE. AT 311409ZJUL22J ████████1.4a [ERMINATED SIGINT COLLECT. AT 311458ZJUL22, ██████ HANDED BACK TO THE LRE. AT 311519ZJUL22, ██████ LANDED AT OJMS. FULL MOTION VIDEO WAS EXPLOITED BY 20.9 MISSION HOURS, 17.2 IMINT HOURS, 1 IMINT TA SKIN GS PROSECUTED, 18. 7 SIG INT HOURS, 1 SIG INT TASKINGSPROSECUTED,2TOTALTASKINGSPROSECUTED (SJRELIBO,
Admin
- OPERATION: INHERENT RESOLVE
- COCOM: USCENTCOM
- UNIT: 89 ATKS
Declassified 2047 — AARO release · USCENTCOM Mission Report — Approved for Release to AARO
Where It Happened
Full Transcript
At 02:39 Zulu, a surveillance aircraft on a classified mission over Syria logged something it couldn't identify: an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The time is stamped. The object is not.
It was July 2022, during Operation Inherent Resolve. The crew had been tasked with imagery intelligence. They'd spent hours collecting. Then, in the middle of it all, they recorded a UAP near their coordinates.
The declassified mission report—Case D-16—tells the story, but barely. Dozens of details are blacked out under national security and privacy exemptions. The aircraft type, the unit, even the exact location—gone.
The report confirms full motion video was exploited by intelligence analysts. But what they saw in that footage? The redactions keep that hidden. The object's shape, its movement, its behavior—all sealed.
This is one case among thousands the Pentagon has quietly released. What do you think they were hiding? Search Case D-16 at ufodata.org to read the file yourself. Subscribe to UFO Data.
Sources
All documents and footage are authentic, public-domain U.S. government releases. Narration is AI-generated text-to-speech.