Declassified UAP

DOW-UAP-PR026

Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023

Format
Video
Incident date
Not given
Released
Release 01, May 8, 2026
Source
war.gov
Topics
Infrared / FLIR, Unresolved UAP reports

Description from war.gov

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 43 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D23, mentions a UAP was observed during the mission. Video Description: 00:00-00:17: An area of contrast remains generally within the top left quarter of the display. 00:17-00:18: The sensor pans from right to left, causing the area of contrast to pass through the center of the display. The sensor then pans from left to right, causing the area of contrast to return to its approximate initial position within the sensor field-of-view. 00:29: The sensor stops tracking the area of contrast, causing it to leave the sensor field-of-view on the left side of the screen. 00:30-00:43: The sensor resumes its motion relative to the background but does not reacquire the area of contrast. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.

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Machine summary

Written by Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) on May 22, 2026, from the record's text and war.gov's description. It is not part of the record and can contain errors; check it against the document.

DOW-UAP-PR026 is a video record submitted by U.S. Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated October 2023 and released May 8, 2026. The document consists of 43 seconds of infrared sensor footage captured from a U.S. military platform operating in the United Arab Emirates. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D23, corroborates that a UAP was observed during the same mission. The footage shows an area of contrast in the upper-left quadrant of the sensor display, briefly passing through center frame during a sensor pan before the sensor loses track of the object at the 29-second mark and does not reacquire it.

The record is classified as unresolved by AARO. No analytical conclusions about the object's nature, origin, or behavior are drawn in the release materials. The absence of OCR text suggests no written analytical product accompanies this release beyond the video description. The companion document DoW-UAP-D23 is referenced but not included, leaving the mission context incomplete. The footage itself provides no altitude, speed, or size data for the observed contrast area.

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Records war.gov itself pairs with this one.

  1. DOW-UAP-D023 Mission Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023 Department of War Document 10/31/23
  2. DOW-UAP-PR027 Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023 Department of War Video No incident date or place given

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