DOW-UAP-PR126
Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019
- Agency
- Department of War
- Format
- Video
- Incident date
- 2019
- Place
- Pacific Ocean
- Released
- Release 05, August 7, 2026
- Source
- DVIDS
- Topics
- Unresolved UAP reports
Description from war.gov
Machine summary
Written by Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) on August 20, 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-PR126 is a 2-minute, 32-second hand-held video recorded by a U.S. military service member over the Pacific Ocean in 2019. The footage was transferred from the Navy's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022 and released publicly on August 7, 2026. Shot in low-light conditions, the video shows multiple apparent light sources being tracked by the camera operator across the frame. No geographic coordinates or vessel/platform identification are provided in the record description.
The document is one of five contemporaneous recordings (DOW-UAP-PR123 through PR127), suggesting a single incident or observation period captured from multiple angles or at sequential moments. Notably, the record explicitly states the media was digitally altered before being reported to AARO and is presented as received, meaning its evidentiary integrity is already compromised. No OCR text is available, and no analytical conclusions are drawn by the releasing agency. The alteration disclosure is the most significant flag for any researcher assessing the footage's reliability.
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