DOW-UAP-PR45 / UNRESOLVED UAP REPORT / MIDDLE EAST / 2020
The Department of the Air Force submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 58 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: 00:00-00:03: The sensor tracks an area of contrast acquiring a reticle lock. 00:04-00:30: The area of contrast gradually increases in distinctiveness
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DOW-UAP-PR45 / UNRESOLVED UAP REPORT / MIDDLE EAST / 2020 is a declassified U.S. military UAP video captured in Southern United States in 2020. The clip is 58 seconds long, recorded in Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR/IR) format. It is part of PURSUE Release 01 — the Pentagon's 2026-05-08 declassified UAP file release — and is hosted by the Department of Defense via the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS).
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The clip can be viewed and downloaded directly from the official DVIDS asset page. UAP.WATCH does not host the video file directly to preserve the government chain-of-custody for evidentiary footage. All 28 PURSUE videos are linked from the homepage video evidence grid.