# The UAP Report They Didn't Redact - Djibouti, 2025

- Case: D-8
- Published: 2026-08-28
- Canonical URL: https://ufodata.org/library/the-uap-report-they-didn-t-redact-djibouti-2025
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvm7J5owl_c
- Location: Near Djibouti, Horn of Africa (2025)
- Source: UFOData.org case library (https://ufodata.org/library/)

> In 2025, near Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, a U.S. crew logged an unusual UAP observation — and unusually, the description was released nearly…

In 2025, near Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, a U.S. crew logged an unusual UAP observation — and unusually, the description was released nearly intact.

According to the declassified USCENTCOM mission report, at 1653 Zulu the crew observed two round, white-hot UAPs moving dynamically south at approximately 240 knots.

The report even pins them to a specific grid coordinate. While a handful of lines on the page are redacted under exemption 1.4(a), the object description itself — shape, thermal signature, motion, and speed — was left in.

That makes D-8 stand out: most of these reports black out exactly this kind of detail. This one didn't.

Below is the declassified page, redactions preserved.

## The Document

SECRET//REL TO USA, FIN, SWE, FVEY, NATO 2025

### USCENTCOM Mission Report — Djibouti (2025)

[redacted]  [redacted]  [redacted]

#### GENTEXT/UAP

- UAP Description (e.g., size, shape, color, markings, recognizable features): AT 1653Z, [redacted] OBS 2X ROUND WHITE HOT UAPS DYNAMIC SOUTH AT APPROX 240NM/HOUR IVO 35SQT3423692957.
- Gentext (UAP Event Description): AT 1653Z, [redacted] OBS 2X UAPS DYNAMIC SOUTH AT APPROX 240NM/HOUR IVO 35SQT3423692957.

[redacted]

Released to AARO under PURSUE — surrounding report withheld under EO 13526 §1.4(a); released narrative reproduced below, redactions preserved. · U.S. Department of War — PURSUE UAP release (DOW-UAP-D8)

## Full Transcript

This time, the military didn't black it out. The report says it plainly: two round, white-hot objects, moving south.

2025, near Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa. At 16:53 Zulu, a U.S. crew logged two UAPs in the same frame.

Here is what the report actually says. Two UAPs. Round. White-hot. Moving dynamically south, at about 240 knots. All of it, on the record.

There are only a handful of black bars on this page — but the description isn't one of them. The shape, the heat, the speed, the direction: all released.

Two round, white-hot objects, maneuvering south — and this time, they didn't hide it. Search Case D-8 at ufodata.org. What do you think they were? Subscribe to UFO Data.

## Sources

- [PURSUE — U.S. Department of War UAP release portal](https://www.war.gov/ufo/)
- [National Archives — Record Group 615 (UAP records)](https://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps/rg-615)
- [AARO — All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office](https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Records/)

All documents and footage are authentic, public-domain U.S. government releases. Narration is AI-generated text-to-speech.