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INDOPACOM UAP Email Chain, April 2025

US aircraft observed single possible UAP on two nights over INDOPACOM AOR.

Event

Jan 1, 2025

Location

Japan

Source

PURSUE Program

DOW-UAP-D50, Email Correspondence, INDOPACOM, April 2025

AI Disclosure Brief

AI assisted

Reported Object Read

US aircraft observed a single possible UAP flying at unknown altitude and speed, with no interference noted.

Notable Characteristics

  • Altitude: unknown
  • Duration: 12 seconds (10 Apr); 23 seconds (11 Apr)
  • Environment: sky

Reported Motion

  • flying

Evidence Notes

  • UNCLASSIFIED tearlines from email chain
  • Confirmed by INDOPACOM unit and OUSD(I&S)

Redacted email chain documents two brief US aircraft observations of possible UAP in INDOPACOM, with tearlines declassified to UNCLASSIFIED; no further details on object characteristics.

Shape read

Unclear

Sensors

visual

AI confidence

85%

Prosaic Leads

  • Unidentified aircraft
  • Sensor artifact
  • Distant conventional object

Anomalous Indicators

  • Labeled 'POSS UAP' in official tearlines
  • No interference noted during observations

Evidence Gaps

  • Unknown altitude, speed, shape
  • Redacted personnel and unit details
  • No sensor data or imagery provided
External reference status: Unverified

Evidence Quotes // source statements

Open archive
Sensor ContactExact quote
"US AIRCRAFT OBSERVED 1X POSS UAP FOR 12 SECONDS AT 2353Z, FLYING AT UNK ALTITUDE AND UNK SPEED, NO INTERFERENCE WAS NOTED."

Unknown speaker

UNCLASSIFIED tearline for 10APR25

Sensor ContactExact quote
"US AIRCRAFT OBSERVED 1X POSS UAP FOR 23 SECONDS AT 0007Z, FLYING AT UNK ALTITUDE AND UNK SPEED, NO INTERFERENCE WAS NOTED."

Unknown speaker

UNCLASSIFIED tearline for 11APR25

Official DenialAttributed claim
"Tearlines approved at the UNCLASSIFIED level."

Unknown speaker, Information Disclosure Analyst / Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security

Email confirmation

Pattern Mesh // linked sightings

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Unresolved UAP Report Japan, 2023

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Same country: Japan

Same source archive

Score 36 shared tags

Range Fouler Debrief: Multiple Objects, Japan 2020

Pilot tracked fast-moving objects surpassing each other on radar screen.

Same country: Japan

Same source archive

Score 34 shared tags

Papua New Guinea High-Speed Overflights, 1985

State Department cable relays PNG intelligence reports of fast aircraft with lights, contrails, noise.

Same country: Japan

Same source archive

Score 35 shared tags

Papua New Guinea Overflights Inquiry, 1985

U.S. Embassy cables PNG reports of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft with lights and contrails.

Same country: Japan

Same source archive

Official Files // source material

1 linked
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DOW-UAP-D50, Email Correspondence, INDOPACOM, April 2025

I just got off the phone with the unit that flies They said to me (b) (6) 1.4(a) that the two lines listed are on the UNCLASSIFIED level and that adding in the AOR as INDOPACOM is also at the UNCLASSIFIED level. (b) (6) PAROC Intel Data Analysis Technician Team Lead 12 AF / DET 3 (b) (6) 1.4(a) (b) (6) CLASSIFICATION: SECRET//NOFORN Hello, Per our conversaƟon, can you please confirm that the tearlines below are at the UNCLASSIFIED level? Also, could you please confirm that we can use the AOR INDOPACOM. Thank you, (b) (6) 1 (b) (6) CLASSIFICATION: SECRET//NOFORN (b) (6) CLASSIFICATION: SECRET//NOFORN Hello, I wanted to clarify that these tearlines are approved at the UNCLASSIFIED level. 1.4(a) on 10APR25 //UNCLASSIFIED// US AIRCRAFT OBSERVED 1X POSS UAP FOR 12 SECONDS AT 23