Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, June 2024

Date: Jun 2024
Place: Gulf of Oman
Record: Pentagon file
Assessment: Not assessed
Evidence strength

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What was reported

Twenty-one seconds of infrared video submitted by US Northern Command. The blurb states an accompanying mission report 'DoW-UAP-D8' described an object with a vertical pole or bar attached to its bottom, and that the observer also suggested the UAP may instead be a reflection from an object in the water, i.e. the reporting unit itself offered a non-anomalous alternative explanation.

What officials concluded

Tentative explanation

The blurb states the observer reported the object may instead be a reflection from something in the water, a conventional/optical alternative explanation offered by the reporting unit itself.

Agency: Department of War
Released in

Evidence profile

Sensors1 of 9

No: Visual
Yes: Infrared
No: Radar
No: Video
No: Photo
No: Film
No: Audio
No: Night vision
No: Other sensor

Witnessescount not stated

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

ShapeOther shape

No: Light only
No: Orb or sphere
No: Disc
No: Triangle
No: Cylinder
No: Cube
Yes: Other shape

Effectsnone reported

No: Physiological
No: Physical trace
No: Electromagnetic
No: Sound
No: Silent

Why this rating Single infrared sensor, and the reporting unit's own account offers a plausible conventional explanation (a water reflection), which is exactly the kind of self-reported alternative explanation the evidence ladder should weigh against 'strong'.

As described in the file

Witnesses: Unstated in blurb; US Northern Command platform
Sensors: Infrared (single sensor)
Shape: Inverted teardrop with vertically linear trailing mass, per video description; 'vertical pole or bar' per blurb
Motion: Remains generally centered in frame throughout
Duration: 21 seconds

Pentagon files

VideoDOW-UAP-PR029Release 1
DOW-UAP-PR029, Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, June 2024
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What the file claims

Unverified
The reporting observer suggested the sighting could be a water reflection rather than a discrete airborne object.

On the map

24.50° N, 58.50° E, a position at sea, approximate

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