Declassified UAP

DOW-UAP-PR113

Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 1996

Format
Video
Incident date
1996
Released
Release 04, July 10, 2026
Source
DVIDS
Topics
Infrared / FLIR, Unresolved UAP reports

Description from war.gov

The United States Navy Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) transferred this media to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022. The video contains 2 minutes and 57 seconds of footage likely captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 1996. Video Description: No formal data handling practices for UAP-related records existed at the time this media was reported to the UAPTF. This media was digitally altered before being reported to the UAPTF, and is presented as it was received by AARO. 00:01-00:13: No content. 00:14-00:17: An area of contrast transits the sensor field-of-view, entering near the upper right corner and exiting near the lower left corner of the frame. 00:18-01:21: The footage repeats frame-by-frame. 01:22-02:13: The footage repeats at a slower playback speed. 02:14-02:56: The footage holds on a frame extracted from the first 17 seconds of the video. 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-PR113 is a video record released July 10, 2026, under the PURSUE Release 01 program, associated with an incident from 1996 in the Western United States. The footage, approximately two minutes and fifty-seven seconds in length, was likely captured by an infrared sensor aboard an unidentified U.S. military platform. It was transferred from the Navy's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022. The substantive content consists of roughly four seconds of footage showing an area of contrast transiting the sensor field-of-view; the remainder of the video is repetition, slow-motion replay, and a freeze frame of that same content.

The record is significantly compromised. By AARO's own account, the media was digitally altered before it was reported to the UAPTF, and no formal data handling standards for UAP records existed at the time of the original incident. The chain of custody is therefore uncertain, and the alterations are uncharacterized. No OCR text is available, and the platform, crew, and precise location remain unspecified. The video cannot support analytical conclusions in its current form.

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