DISCLOSURE / FILE
A Department of War release of a 2 minute 57 second infrared video, likely captured by a U.S. military platform in 1996 over the western United States, that the Navy's UAP Task Force transferred to AARO in 2022.
DOW-UAP-PR113, Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 1996
A Department of War release of a 2 minute 57 second infrared video, likely captured by a U.S. military platform in 1996 over the western United States, that the Navy's UAP Task Force transferred to AARO in 2022.
This is DOW-UAP-PR113, a video file the U.S. Navy Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) transferred to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022, released by the Department of War on July 10, 2026. The footage runs 2 minutes 57 seconds and was likely captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 1996; AARO notes the media was digitally altered before being reported to the UAPTF and is presented as received. The recorded event is brief: an area of contrast transits the sensor field-of-view between 00:14 and 00:17, entering near the upper right and exiting near the lower left, after which the same seconds repeat frame-by-frame, then at slower speed, then hold on a single extracted frame. AARO states no formal data handling practices for UAP-related records existed when the media was reported, and the description carries no analytical judgment or investigative conclusion.