◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
Through the Gunship's Sights
On the night of 20 September 2024 an Air Force Special Operations gunship crew fired a Griffin missile on a calibration shot near Ayn al Asad Air Base in Iraq. Between launch and impact, its mission report says, a solid object streaked through the aircraft's sensors and flared their infrared lenses with its heat. This is the record of what the crew reported, not a verdict on what crossed the frame.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- Through the Gunship's Sights is a reported UAP case in ROZ Raindrop, Ayn al Asad Air Base range, Anbar Governorate, Iraq, 20 September 2024, 2027Z.
- A gunship crew over Iraq reported seeing an unidentified object "fly" through its sensors at high speed after it fired a Griffin missile and before the missile hit.
- The object threw an infrared lens flare across two sensors, which the mission report reads as "a significant heat signature coming from the object."
- The report says its path "appeared predetermined" and leaves open whether something detached from it as it left the field of view.
- The crew assessed the object as benign and never saw it again; no video or explanation is released.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 1 claimant on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
20 September 2024, 2027Z
LOCATION
ROZ Raindrop, Ayn al Asad Air Base range, Anbar Governorate · Iraq
COORDS
34.27°N 42.34°E
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
1
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
