Mission Report, Syria, November 2016
Verified against primary sourceHow solid the official record is — source authority, corroboration, evidence quality, provenance, and disposition.
How far officials are from explaining it. Unexplained means officials haven’t explained it — never that it is extraterrestrial.
VERIFIED (P-8A mission report, primary): an unidentified low-flying object in sea-skim mode (~500 kt) NW of Latakia, passing between a Russian ARS and a vessel; the command assessed it as standard activity consistent with the Kuznetsov task group (a probable missile). Includes EO/IR imagery and a flight-path map. Anomaly lowered; evidence quality raised for the imagery. [war.gov] This document is a mission briefing summarizing an observation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) by a U.S. military platform near Latakia, Syria. A U.S. military pilot flying a P-8A aircraft reported observing an object via the aircraft’s EO/IR sensor, which they characterized as appearing to be in “sea skim mode,” traveling at approximately 500 knots (575 mph) on a southeasterly heading. The P-8A lost visual contact with the object after two minutes. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
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