Arabian Gulf: USAF ISR aircraft observes two UAP within five minutes on FMV
On 2 November 2020 at 21:43 and 21:48 UTC, a U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft of the 482nd Attack Squadron supporting NAVCENT over the Arabian Gulf observed two unidentified aerial phenomena on its full-motion video sensor, the second travelling northwest.
Background
Mission report DOW-UAP-D64 (USCENTCOM, declassified 16 March 2026) covers a 20-hour-42-minute armed reconnaissance/ISR sortie of the 482nd Attack Squadron (432nd Air Expeditionary Wing) that took off at 06:08 UTC on 2 November 2020 and supported NAVCENT in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. At 10:12 UTC the aircraft was hailed on guard by Iranian air defence and gave the standard response. At 21:43 UTC, at FL220 and heading 110° true in the Arabian Gulf (grid 39R WK, partly redacted), the crew observed one unidentified aerial phenomenon at unknown altitude on a bearing of 080° true by full-motion video; at 21:48 UTC an additional UAP was observed travelling northwest. Aircraft type, tail number and callsign are redacted; weather haze precluded imagery collection. The report gives no further description of the objects and no classification beyond 'UAP'. The details are taken from the records released by the U.S. Department of War (record code DOW-UAP-D64) and do not represent an independent determination by From Beyond Space.