Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023
- Date
- 2023
- Place
- Middle East
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Eighteen seconds of infrared video from a US military platform in the Middle East in 2023, released in release 4 with no accompanying mission report. The description shows the sensor zooming on a dark area of contrast, two bright areas transiting the frame, then the sensor refocusing and placing a reticle on the original dark contrast before a contrast/zoom change causes a white flash.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- Department of War
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- No: Visual
- Yes: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- Yes: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating No mission report released with this file; blurb-only single-sensor clip describing two 'bright areas of contrast' and a separately tracked 'dark area', with no shape, speed or altitude data and no assessment.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Unstated (no mission report released)
- Sensors
- Infrared (single sensor)
- Motion
- Two bright areas transit left to right; separate dark area held in a reticle
- Duration
- 18 seconds
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR024, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023
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On the map
29.00° N, 45.00° E, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record
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