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Range Fouler Debrief, NA, October 2020

File: DOW-UAP-D058
Type: Document, 1 pages
Agency: Department of War
Date: 10/27/20
Place: N/A
Released: Release 1, May 8, 2026

The government's description

This document is a Range Fouler Debrief, a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training. These reports contain a narrative description of the observer’s experiences. A U.S. military operator reported an encounter with a group of two UAP. The operator described the UAP as “balloon-shaped,” metallic, and reflective, characterizing them as “2x red blinking strobes.” The report states that “one range fouler was circling around the other.” 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.

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Declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison
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Range Fouler Debrie Form
email the complete file manually
(see below).
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Please complete this form to the best of your ability. If you do
have the requested information,
please leave the field blank. If there was more than one "groupi," please report each on a separate
form for data collection purposes. You should receive a respons within 5 business days.
Last Name. First Name
Squadron
Rank
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Crew Position
S/PR £mail Address
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This information is for contact only. SPEAR sanitizes all r . ports of identifying information.
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Absolutely no identifying information for aircrew or squadT< n will be recorded for analysis.
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Night
Date (mmldd,yy)
Time of detection
Day I Night
DCA
Side No.
Bimo
No
LFE?
Mission Description (CAS. BFM, etc)
(hh:mm:ss Z)
26000
Contact Wonting Area
(Ex: W-72 1A)
Contact Latitute
(DD:MM:SS)
N/S
Contact Longitude
(DD:MM:SS)
E,W
•ontact Altitude
( x: 22000)
Please attempt to determine a Laf I Long for the contact at initial detection. We recommend
using JMPS to reference the sensor-derived bearing and range relative to the bullseye you had
in use. If that method is not a vailable, any reasonable derivation of location will work, but please
be as specific as possible and make a note in the comments section. These l ocations may be
us.e d to cue other means of tracking.
Radar Equipped: Other
AIM-9x Self-Track:
Stable Trackfile?: Yes
A TFL/R Autotrack:
# of Contacts in "Group": 2
Tally Achieved:
EA Indications (Check all that apply):
□
ECM
Arc
□
Letter
Jdentmer
□
False
Trackfi/es
No
Wind Dir at
Contact Alt
(From)
Altitude
Constant?
Wind
Speed
Yes
Was the contact moving?
Direction/Speed
(fa. 090115)
□
□
060/20
Please check all that apply:
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Square: D
Round:
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D
Metallic:
[Z]
[Z]
D
D
Translucent: D
Other Shape:[£].
Opaque: [{]
Balloon-shaped:
Wings/Airframe:
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Moving Parts:
Markings:
Apparent Propulsion:□
Other/
Ambiguous
Reflective:
[Z]
Please use the field below to describe the contact and any inte action in your own words with as much
detail as possible. Please be sure to include any detail not included in questions above.
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KINGPIN DIRECTED ID OF UNKNOWN CONTACT.!
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OBTAINED RADAR LOCK AND TARGET
POD VIDEO BUT UNABLE TO GET CLOSER THAN 16.9NM TID GETA BETTER ID. THE TARGET POD
SHOWED 2 IR SIGNIFICANT CONTACTS. ONE RANGE FOUL~
ER WAS CIRCLING AROUND THE
OTHER IN 1130TH OF A SECOND, THEY WERE GONE. TALLr ACHIEVED WAS 2X RED BLINKING
STROBES AND NOISE JAMMING WAS RECIEVED. NOISE JAMMING WAS INDICATED BY TWO
CHEVRONS.
FIRST DETECTION OF THE RANGE FOULERS WERE AT B/E ZIM 248/17 t.__ _
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Thank you for your time. Please ensure all display tapes are rip •ed for the entire time of interaction and
saved as a .wmv (Example: 4 May VFA-106 HUD. wmv). Squadron intel personnel shall upload those files
to the repository located at this link.
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