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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.
Witnesses
Unknown
Duration
5 sec
Source material
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Timeline
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Source provenance
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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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Occurred
2020
Location
Arabian Gulf
Duration
5 sec
Deep extraction
Source claims
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.
Case progression
Timeline
Witnesses place the encounter near Arabian Gulf.
War.gov PURSUE carried the report into the source network.
Grouped into the Unresolved UAP Report Middle East 2013 incident dossier.
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