One UAP Transiting the Gulf

The aircraft was there to watch boats. It had been tasked for US Naval Forces Central Command to scan for Iranian navy and Revolutionary Guard vessels, drone activity and movement outside the ports. At 0726Z, a little over two hours into those scans, the crew "OBSERVED 1X UAP" and logged its activity as "TRANSITTING". The method of observation was full-motion video. The entry ends "NO IMPACT TO MISSION". Later that day an Iranian air-defence station hailed the aircraft on the guard frequency, and the crew gave the standard reply.

What is on the record

The only record is MISREP 4592219, a US Central Command mission report from the 482nd Attack Squadron. It was declassified on 20 March 2026 and published as DOW-UAP-D60 in the Department of War's first PURSUE release on 8 May 2026. Callsigns, the operation's name, the aircraft type and its tail number are all redacted. The report names no crew member. It says nothing about the object's size, shape or height.

Grid references survive in part. The report gives two for the UAP, and they fall about 18 km apart in the central Gulf north of Qatar. The aircraft's own logged position lies roughly 130 km away. The weather entries disagree too: one says weather was not a factor, another that dense cloud intermittently hampered the video.

The release also holds a clip whose uploader dated it 8 August 2020 (DOW-UAP-PR092). AARO does not tie it to this report and nothing in either links the two, so this page does not treat it as footage of this sighting. No explanation is offered.

Why it sits where it does

L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it. The observers are an attack squadron's crew, identified by unit with every name withheld. No independent testimony sits beside the report in the archive, and the tier measures sourcing rather than truth. What crossed the video feed is not resolved here.