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This infrared footage was submitted to AARO by the Department of the Army and came from a U.S. military platform in North America in 2026. The report identifies the observation only as an unidentified anomalous phenomenon, and the case is unresolved.

The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation. The released video file is redacted.

What the sensor shows, as described in the release:

00:00-00:08: The sensor tracks an initial area of interest.
00:09-00:16: The sensor disengages from its previous area of focus and pans from right to left to track two areas of contrast, narrowing the field-of-view to zoom in while panning to maintain the objects' positions generally within the center of the frame.
00:17-01:03: The sensor widens its field-of-view to zoom out, keeping the areas of contrast generally centered within the display.
01:04-01:08: The sensor field-of-view rapidly cycles between levels of zoom, causing the areas of contrast to appear to rapidly increase and decrease in size.
01:09-01:48: The sensor tracks the areas of contrast while maintaining a generally centered position, intermittently cycling between contrast settings.

Declassified by the Department of War under the PURSUE UAP records release (tranche of 5/8/26).
Agency: Department of War
Incident: North America
Document ID: DOW-UAP-PR049
This release is redacted.
Running time: 1 minute 49 seconds.