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DOW-UAP-PR39, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five 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: 00:03-00:05: A faint area of contrast enters the sensor field-of-view from the bottom half of the right edge of the screen, proceeds from right to left across the corner of the frame, and exits the scene from near the center of the bottom edge of the screen. 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.

Light5 secVideo2020Arabian Gulf

Witnesses

Unknown

Duration

5 sec

Source material

4

Timeline

3

Source provenance

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Correlations

Field Intelligence

Location precision

Terrestrial weather, solar-window, airport, and nearby-infrastructure correlations are suppressed for this regional record.

Context notes

Arabian Gulf is too broad to support reliable weather, sunlight-window, airport, or nearby-infrastructure correlations.

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Extracted details

Observed facts

Occurred

2020

Location

Arabian Gulf

Duration

5 sec

Deep extraction

Source claims

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Source reported

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2020.

Source reported

The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation.

Case progression

Timeline

Encounter window2020

Witnesses place the encounter near Arabian Gulf.

PublishedMay 8, 2026, 12:00 AM

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Linked event

Grouped into the Unresolved UAP Report Middle East 2013 incident dossier.

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Source material