In September 2020, a U.S. military aircraft during Operation ~,_____1.4A______, operating over Strait of Hormuz recorded an unidentified object its crew could not explain.
The encounter is documented in an official U.S. military mission report, declassified and released through AARO — the Pentagon's UAP office.
The report confirms the crew observed a 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//NOFORNSeptember 2020
UAP Mission Report — Strait of Hormuz (September 2020)
Narrative
MG A. USCENTCOM 22 2026 4782130 AT OFF FROM OK.AS. 2313Z, ██████ HANDED OVER FROM LRE, FROM 23462 TO ED SIGINT VIA AIRHANDLER. FROM 03182 TO NAVCENT FOR 01>ERAT10NI ████████1.4a ARABIAN GULF, OF HORMUZ AND GULF OF OMAN, SEE ISR!LINE 1. AT 04082. ████████1.4a 'RECEIVED A GUARD CALL SEE GUARD CALL LINE 1. AT 042 A GUARD CALL. SE'E GUARD CALL LINE 2. AT 141Z. ██████ RECEIVED A GUARD CALL SEE GUARD CALL LINE 3. AT 1248Z, ██████ LOST LINK SEE EMJ LINE 1. AT 14142:J ████████1.4a LOST LINK. SEE LINE 2. AT 1732ZJ ████████1.4a OBSERVED A UAP. SE'E OBS LINE L I829Z, ██████ WAS CLEARED TO RTB, AT BACK TO LRE. AT 958Z, ██████ LANDED AT OK.AS. FMV WAS BY DGSI. 20.9 1-IO ██████ S. 15.2 HOURS. I JMTNT TASKING PROSECUTED, 19.3 S1GTNT HOURS, 1 SIGINT TAS ING PROSECUTED. 2 TOTAL TASK1NGS PROSECUTED CLASSIFICATION (MS ID): MUL11IPLE SOURCES (YYYYMMDD): 20450301 OPERATION
Admin
OPERATION: ~,_____1.4a______,
UNIT: 482ATKS
Declassified 2045 — AARO release · DoD Mission Report — Approved for Release to AARO
Where It Happened
Full Transcript
September 2020. Strait of Hormuz. A U.S. military crew files a mission report: Observed a UAP. But what they saw—and what they did about it—is almost entirely blacked out.
The report confirms only the essentials: a UAP sighting in one of the world's most strategic waterways. No description of the object. No maneuvers. No sensors. Just the admission that something was there.
This is the declassified document—a real U.S. military mission report, released through AARO. It exists. It's official. And it raises more questions than it answers.
But look at the original. Nearly every operational detail is blacked out—the operation, what they observed, even the crew's names. The secrecy is the story.
One sighting. One heavily redacted file—part of a bigger pattern kept hidden for decades. Search Case D-62 at ufodata.org to read it in full. Subscribe to UFO Data.