Department of War PURSUE File
DOW-UAP-D50, Email Correspondence, INDOPACOM, April 2025
4/10/2025-4/11/2025
Editorial summary
Between April 10 and 11, 2025, U.S. aircraft operating in the Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility observed unidentified phenomena on two separate occasions, according to email correspondence released from the Department of War. On April 10 at 2353 Zulu time, a pilot reported a possible unidentified anomalous phenomenon in visual range for approximately 12 seconds. The following day on April 11 at 0007 Zulu time, another U.S. aircraft observed a similar object for roughly 23 seconds. In both instances, the altitude and speed of the observed objects could not be determined, and neither sighting resulted in any reported interference with aircraft systems or operations.
The correspondence consists of email exchanges between military intelligence personnel clarifying the classification level of these observations for official documentation purposes. The original sightings appear to have been compiled in a mission report, which prompted requests for confirmation that the incident descriptions could be released at the unclassified level. Personnel from the 12th Air Force Patriot Operations Center and the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security approved the tearlines for unclassified dissemination, allowing the sightings to be recorded in the official government archive.
This document is now public as part of the Department of War's PURSUE Release 01, cleared for public release on May 8, 2026.
Editorial summary written by govweird from the declassified document text. The official government description follows below.
Government description
This document is email correspondence describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification on its content. 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.
Caption issued by the U.S. Department of War on war.gov/ufo. Verbatim, unedited.
Originating agency
Department of War
Record type
Incident date
4/10/2025-4/11/2025
Incident location
Unspecified
Release tranche
Release 01 (May 8, 2026)
Distribution
Cleared for public release