DOW-UAP-PR072
ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinity of Karaganda International Airport
- Agency
- Department of War
- Format
- Video
- Incident date
- 2022
- Place
- Kazakhstan
- Released
- Release 02, May 22, 2026
- Source
- DVIDS
- Topics
- Intelligence reports
Description from war.gov
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This record is a 17-second video, incident date March 2022, location Kazakhstan, released by the Department of War under the PURSUE Release 01 program on May 22, 2026. It was identified by AARO in response to a March 6, 2026 request from eight House members seeking access to 51 potentially UAP-related records. The footage, assessed as likely shot on a civilian smartphone's rear-facing camera, shows a luminous phenomenon with radiating trails of diminishing brightness near Karaganda International Airport. A user uploaded the video to a classified network in April 2023, over a year after the incident.
The record has significant evidentiary limitations. AARO notes the video was digitally altered before upload and that the broader collection it belongs to lacks a substantiated chain of custody. No OCR text is available, and AARO explicitly declines to assign any analytical or investigative conclusion to the footage. The gap between the March 2022 incident and the April 2023 classified upload, combined with confirmed digital alteration, makes independent verification of the phenomenon's nature impossible from this record alone.
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