Djibouti 2025 Mission Report
Mission report documenting a 2025 unidentified airborne phenomenon observed at or near US military operations in Djibouti.
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Search PURSUE for DOW-UAP-D8 ↗Official description
DOW-UAP-D8: mission narrative report from CENTCOM personnel describing an unidentified airborne object observed during operations in Djibouti, 2025. The release does not include accompanying sensor video.
Editor's context
The Horn of Africa hosts ongoing US military presence at Camp Lemonnier and is a regular operating area for ISR platforms. Document-only files like this are useful for pattern analysis but rarely conclusive on their own.
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Transcribed redactions, stamps, and handwritten markings, the paratext of the file. Often the most human part of a declassified document, and worth reading on its own.
- Stampp. mission report coverU.S. CENTRAL COMMAND, DOW-UAP-D8
- AnnotationMission narrative report only, no accompanying sensor capture in the public release. The Horn of Africa hosts the U.S. Camp Lemonnier installation and is a regular operating area for ISR platforms.
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U.S. Central Command. "Djibouti 2025 Mission Report." Released via PURSUE program, 2026-05-08. File ID: DOW-UAP-D8. https://www.war.gov/UFO/. Accessed 2026-05-12 via Social Media for Aliens archive, https://socialmediaforaliens.com/files/djibouti-2025.
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