Declassified UAP

DOW-UAP-PR030

Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023

Format
Video
Incident date
2023
Place
Middle East
Released
Release 04, July 10, 2026
Source
DVIDS
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 10 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023. Video Description: 00:01-00:05: No content. 00:06-00:07: Two areas of contrast transit the sensor field-of-view. The first enters the field-of-view from the bottom right and exits from the top edge of the frame. The second, relatively smaller area of contrast enters from the top and exits the bottom of the frame. 00:08-00:10: No content. 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 July 13, 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-PR030 is a 2023 incident report submitted by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), released by the Department of War on July 10, 2026. The primary record is ten seconds of infrared sensor footage captured from an unspecified U.S. military platform operating in the Middle East. The footage shows two areas of contrast appearing briefly between timestamps 00:06 and 00:07: one transiting the frame from bottom-right to top edge, and a second, smaller object entering from the top and exiting at the bottom. The first and final seconds of the clip contain no content of interest.

The document is classified as unresolved, meaning AARO did not reach an explanatory conclusion. Notable absences include platform identification, sensor specifications, altitude, speed estimates, and any analytical assessment. No OCR text was recovered, suggesting the record exists solely as video without accompanying written analysis. The crossing trajectories of the two objects moving in opposite directions within a one-second window is the core observational detail driving the report's submission.

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