Declassified UAP

DOW-UAP-PR041

Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020

Format
Video
Incident date
Not given
Place
Arabian Gulf
Released
Release 01, May 8, 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 one minute and 34 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2020. The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation. Video Description: 00:01: An area of contrast enters the sensor field-of-view from the bottom third of the left side of the screen. 00:02-01:34: The sensor pans from left to right, tracking the area of contrast and keeping it generally centered within the field-of-view. 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-PR041 is a 2020 incident report submitted by U.S. Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), classified as a video document and released on 2026-05-08. The record consists of one minute and 34 seconds of infrared sensor footage recorded from an unspecified U.S. military platform operating in the Arabian Gulf. The footage shows an area of contrast entering the sensor's field of view and being tracked from left to right for the duration of the clip. No oral or written description of the observation was provided by the reporting party.

The absence of any accompanying narrative or analytical commentary from the original reporter is a significant limitation, leaving the footage without contextual metadata such as altitude, speed, bearing, or platform type. No OCR text is available, suggesting the record is video-only with no embedded documentation. AARO's published video description explicitly disclaims any analytical or investigative conclusions. The record is classified as unresolved, meaning AARO did not attribute the phenomenon to a known object or event.

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