DISCLOSURE / FILEGulf of Arabia Four-Minute Dual UAP May 2020
DOW-UAP-PR095, "May 05 2020 Gulf of Arabia [CALLSIGN] (Platform) Dual UAP"
A 4-minute-49-second infrared video from a U.S. military platform over the Gulf of Arabia in May 2020, capturing multiple distinct areas of contrast, released following a congressional request for 51 UAP-related DoW records.
Brief
AARO assessed this video as likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the CENTCOM area of responsibility in 2020; an unidentified user uploaded it to a classified network in May 2020. Eight House members formally requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records on March 6, 2026, prompting AARO to surface the collection. AARO notes that many materials in this tranche lack a substantiated chain-of-custody, and explicitly confirms that DOW-UAP-PR093 and DOW-UAP-PR095 are distinct videos despite sharing an uploader-defined title and depicting highly similar subject matter. The final 2 minutes and 57 seconds of the 4:49 runtime contain no content.
Metadata
- Agency
- Department of War
- Release
- 5/22/26
- Incident
- 2020
- Location
- CENTCOM
- Type
- VIDEO • .mp4
- Length
- 4:49
- Programs
- AARO
- Tags
- dual UAP, multiple objects, infrared, Gulf of Arabia, CENTCOM, 2020, classified-network upload, congressional request
Key points
- AARO assesses the video is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in the CENTCOM AOR in 2020, but does not confirm origin with certainty.
- The video was uploaded to a classified network by an unidentified user in May 2020; the uploader-defined title includes a redacted callsign.
- Eight U.S. House members requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related DoW and IC records on March 6, 2026, directly triggering identification of this release.
- AARO flags that many of the 51 responsive materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody, indicating systemic provenance uncertainty across the tranche.
- DOW-UAP-PR093 and DOW-UAP-PR095 are explicitly confirmed as distinct videos despite sharing an uploader-defined title and highly similar subject matter.
- At higher magnification the sensor resolves a single area of contrast into multiple distinct areas of contrast that move in and out of the field-of-view as the sensor pans to track them.
- Timestamps 01:52-04:49 — approximately 62 percent of the total runtime — contain no content.
Most interesting
- The platform callsign is redacted in the uploader-defined title, appearing only as '[CALLSIGN] (Platform)', leaving the originating asset unidentifiable from the public record.
- Nearly 62 percent of the video's total runtime contains no content, beginning at 01:52 and running to the end of the file.
- AARO's chain-of-custody caveat applies broadly to the 51-record collection rather than exclusively to this video, suggesting provenance uncertainty is a structural feature of the entire congressional-request tranche.
- DOW-UAP-PR093 and DOW-UAP-PR095 share an uploader-defined title and 'highly similar subject matter' yet are confirmed non-duplicates, raising the possibility of a second, separate sensor track of the same event or objects.
- The congressional request on March 6, 2026 specified eight House members, making this one of the few DoW UAP releases with an explicit, named legislative trigger on the public record.
- The sensor performs at least four distinct zoom operations during the first 117 seconds, suggesting active operator interest in resolving and tracking the objects rather than incidental capture.