Confirmed: US forces in a pilot search operation. American aircraft shot down or crashed.

Unconfirmed news: US pilot located. Conditions, location and method of discovery not specified.

Iranian authorities declare the capture of a US military pilot. Identity, conditions and place of detention not specified.

Bushehr (Iran): direct clashes between IRGC and US forces during a pilot search operation. First documented direct land contact between American and Iranian forces on Iranian territory.

Contradictory information about the capture of the US pilot. The Iranian government issues a bounty for locating the pilot indirectly confirms that the pilot is not yet in Iranian custody.

Operational hypothesis: the contradictory Iranian statements about the capture of the pilot could be deliberate disinformation — the objective: to attract US rescue planes to the area to conduct an ambush.

Khuzestan (Iran): Iranian citizens reported shooting at US planes in a pilot search operation. Involvement of the civilian population in operations on the ground.

USAF F-15E Strike Eagle shot down in Iran: two crew members missing. US conducting search operations with Black Hawks, C-130 and drones. CENTCOM denies, but wreckage confirms the shootdown.

UNCONFIRMED — F-15E UPDATE: US sources report at least one pilot has been recovered. Search and rescue operations still ongoing. No official confirmation from CENTCOM.

Partially successful US SAR operation: helicopters hit during recovery but mission completed, one pilot recovered. The fate of the second pilot is still unknown.

IRGC isolates the province of Kohgiluyeh-Boyer Ahmad for search operations for the missing US pilot. Active military cord