Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Place
- Southern United States
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Fifty-eight seconds of infrared video submitted by the Department of the Air Force in 2020, with no oral or written description from the original reporter. The area of contrast gradually increases in apparent size and distinctiveness as the platform closes distance, and AARO's own comment explains this apparent growth as at least partly attributable to the aircraft's own motion (parallax/closure), not necessarily the object changing.
What officials concluded
Tentative explanation
AARO attributes the apparent growth in the object's size to the observing platform closing the distance, i.e. a parallax/closure-rate explanation rather than the object itself changing.
- Agency
- Department of War
- Released in
- 123456
AARO comment
The area of contrast’s apparent increase in size is likely to be at least partially attributable to the U.S. platform closing the distance between itself and the source of the detection.
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 AARO's own comment explains the clip's central visual feature (apparent growth) as ordinary closure-distance parallax from the sensor platform's motion, leaving no described anomalous behavior; single sensor, no reporter description.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Unstated; reporter provided no description
- Sensors
- Infrared (single sensor)
- Size
- Increases in apparent size over the clip
- Motion
- Gradually increases in distinctiveness as sensor closes/zooms
- Duration
- 58 seconds
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR045, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
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What the file claims
- Unverified
AARO's own comment explains the video's most notable visual feature (apparent growth in size) as a closure-distance/parallax artifact of the observing platform's own motion, not a change in the object.
On the map
32.00° N, 95.00° W, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record
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