Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Place
- Arabian Gulf
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
One minute 3 seconds of infrared video from 2020. The original reporter digitally altered the footage by pausing playback and drawing a white annotation circle around the area of interest labeled 'U/I SMALL THERMAL SIGNATURE'; AARO states it did not edit the material and presents it as received.
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 Blurb-only, single sensor; the reporter's own contemporaneous label ('U/I small thermal signature') is a modest, non-dramatic characterization, and the described behavior (brightening then being tracked in the top third of frame) does not describe anomalous performance.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Original reporter (unnamed)
- Sensors
- Infrared (single sensor)
- Size
- Small thermal signature per reporter's own annotation
- Motion
- Sensor pans to track area of contrast, staying in top third of frame
- Duration
- 1 min 3 sec
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR040, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
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What the file claims
- Unverified
The original reporter's own annotation labels the object only as an unidentified small thermal signature, and AARO states the material is presented as received without AARO edits beyond noting the reporter's own alteration.
On the map
27.00° N, 51.50° E, a position at sea, approximate
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