Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020

DOW-UAP-PR039 is a 2020 incident report submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO, covering an observation made in the Arabian Gulf. The record consists solely of five seconds of infrared sensor video captured from an unspecified U.S. military platform. No oral or written description was provided by the reporting party. The video shows a faint contrast signature entering the frame from the lower-right edge, traversing diagonally across the corner, and exiting near the bottom center, with the movement occurring between the three- and five-second marks.

The record is notably sparse: the submitting platform is not identified, no sensor metadata or altitude and speed parameters are described, and the reporter provided no contextual account to accompany the footage. Without those data points, range, size, and velocity of the object cannot be estimated from the available record. The absence of any analytical judgment is explicitly noted in the release. The case remains unresolved and sits within AARO's broader inventory of submitted but insufficiently documented UAP reports.