Pentagon UFO Files: The Modern UAP Mission Reports

Over Iraq in May 2022, an American surveillance crew tracked a Russian-built Sukhoi fighter landing near Al Asad airfield and identified it on sight — down to the variant. The same crew, the same sensors, the same night, logged one more object they could only call a possible UAP.That contrast — professionals who can name everything in the airspace, hitting the one entry where their skill ran out — runs through the twenty-nine modern Department of War mission reports in the 2026 release. Filed under Operation Inherent Resolve, the coalition campaign against ISIS, they span the Arabian Gulf, Iraq, Syria, and Greece, from 2020 to 2024.Episode 2 opens the Pentagon's modern UAP files: the standardized reporting form that echoes a 1947 checklist seventy-five years later; objects logged with grid coordinates, flight levels, and timestamps while their descriptions stay blank or redacted; full-motion video the military "exploited" but never released; radar jamming logged minutes before three unidentified objects near Shaddadi, Syria; and the single most revealing field in the set — where one crew, with the clearest view anyone had, assessed the object and wrote one word: benign. No hype, no lore, no premature verdict. Just the files, the evidence, the gaps, and the questions the record leaves open.Sources for this episode: https://nbn.fm/ufo-files/episode/ep2About The UFO FilesThe UFO Files is an investigative podcast analyzing declassified UFO and UAP records, document by document. Every claim is grounded in primary source records, with sources and transcripts published on the Neural Broadcast Network website for verification.https://nbn.fm/