Evidence 04

DOW-UAP-D28, Iraq, September 2024

A significant IR heat source in the middle of a weapons-calibration event.

D28 Iraq Mission Report PDF

Validity 7.3

Notoriety 7.4

Discussion Heat High

The file says operators saw a lens flare via MX-20 and MX-25 IR sensors after firing an AGM-176 Griffin missile.
The operators characterized the source as a fast UAP moving through the sensor field of view and associated with a significant heat source.

Strong because it has a modern military collection context, named sensor systems, and an explicit IR heat-source claim.
Complicated because the report itself uses lens-flare language, making sensor artifact analysis central.

Believers focus on the heat-source language and the multi-sensor context.
Skeptics focus on the weapons-calibration setting and the possibility that the interesting part is sensor optics, not an object.

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