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Dept. of DefenseUnresolvedAmbiguous

Two round white-hot UAPs moving south at 240 NM/hr — Djibouti theater, 1653Z 2025

~2025Djibouti / Gulf of Aden area (MGRS 35SQT34 23 69 29 57) (approx.)
Analysis — our summary

During a mission over the Djibouti theater, an airborne sensor observed 2 round white-hot UAPs moving dynamically southbound at approximately 240 nautical miles per hour (approx. 276 mph) at 1653Z. The objects were observed IVO MGRS 35SQT3423692957. The document is extremely heavily redacted, with only the GENTEXT/UAP section legible; the prefix characters '@BGRBP=RBRG' and '@BGRE2SRBi@=SGamSiaaie)' are likely encoding artifacts or garbled OCR of classification banners. No shape descriptor beyond 'round' is given; the infrared 'white hot' presentation indicates an IR signature above ambient temperature.

As reported — verbatim from the document
"OBS 2X ROUND WHITE HOT UAPS DYNAMIC SOUTH AT APPROX 240NM/HOUR IVO 35SQT3423692957."
Analyst notes — caveats & confidence

Document is nearly entirely redacted under 1.4(a) exemptions — approximately the first 23 lines of the extracted text are blank exemption markers. Only the final GENTEXT/UAP section is readable. Year 2025 inferred from file name; exact date and month not recoverable. The MGRS string '35SQT3423692957' is legible; zone 35S corresponds to the Horn of Africa / Djibouti region, consistent with the file name. Speed of 240 NM/hr = approximately 276 statute mph. The garbled prefix characters ('@BGRBP=RBRG') are almost certainly OCR artifacts from a classification banner and carry no substantive meaning. Confidence 0.5 due to extreme redaction and OCR noise; only UAP description gentext is usable.

Provenance
Source documentDOW-UAP-D8-Mission-Report-Djibouti-2025.pdf
Document typeMISREP
Reporting agencyDept. of Defense
Source pages7
DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)
Held classified~1 year (≥, to this release)
Extraction confidence ModerateHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.