Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Place
- Arabian Gulf
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Four minutes 53 seconds of infrared video from 2020, with no oral or written description from the original reporter. The area of contrast intermittently loses distinctiveness against the background, and the sensor switches imaging modalities twice while continuing to track it near the same relative frame position.
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 infrared sensor, brief clip, and the reporter 'did not provide any oral or written description of the observation', the file consists only of AARO's own neutral, generic 'area of contrast' description with no shape, speed, altitude or witness assessment. Modality switches are the same platform's sensor changing imaging bands, not independent corroboration.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Unstated; reporter provided no description
- Sensors
- Infrared (single sensor), multiple imaging modalities on the same platform
- Motion
- Intermittently loses distinctiveness against background; sensor pans erratically
- Duration
- 4 min 53 sec
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR042, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
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On the map
27.00° N, 51.50° E, a position at sea, approximate
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