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This is five seconds of infrared sensor footage from a U.S. military platform in the Arabian Gulf, submitted to AARO by United States Central Command. The report concerns an unidentified anomalous phenomenon recorded in 2020.

AARO describes the case as unresolved, and the reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation. The file is redacted.

What the sensor shows, as described in the release:

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.

Declassified by the Department of War under the PURSUE UAP records release (tranche of 5/8/26).
Agency: Department of War
Incident: Arabian Gulf
Document ID: DOW-UAP-PR039
This release is redacted.
Running time: 6 seconds.