"Syrian UAP instant acceleration"
- Date
- 2021
- Place
- CENTCOM (Syria)
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Uploader-titled 'Syrian UAP instant acceleration', assessed by AARO as likely derived from a US platform in Syria in 2021 and uploaded to a classified network in June 2024. The file is extensively digitally altered before upload: replayed at 100%, 50%, and 25% speed, with inverted black/white values and zoom, and labeled title cards, none of which is confirmed by AARO as accurate. The neutral description shows an object exiting frame when the sensor stops tracking it, not an 'instant acceleration' event per se.
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 Release 2 (unlike release 1's aircrew-submitted MISREP-paired videos): these files were found by AARO on a classified network after 8 House members requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records on 6 March 2026; AARO states many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody. Uploader-supplied titles (often dramatic: 'instant acceleration', 'Cigar Shaped', 'erratic movement') are distinct from and not confirmed by AARO's own neutral video description. This file's uploader-title claim of 'instant acceleration' is not supported by AARO's neutral description, which attributes the apparent rapid motion to loss of sensor track, and the heavy uploader-applied digital alteration (slow-motion, inversion, zoom) further undermines its evidentiary value.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Unknown uploader, unverified chain of custody
- Sensors
- Infrared (single sensor), assessed not confirmed
- Motion
- Sensor stops tracking, causing object to rapidly exit frame; replayed at multiple altered speeds by uploader
- Duration
- 5 min 2 sec (much of it repeated/altered replays of the same short original clip)
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR051, "Syrian UAP instant acceleration"
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What the file claims
- Unverified
The uploader's title claims 'instant acceleration', but AARO's neutral description attributes the object's rapid exit from frame to the sensor ceasing to track it, not a described acceleration of the object itself.
- Unverified
The uploader applied extensive digital alterations (slow-motion replays at 50% and 25% speed, inverted colors, zoom) before uploading, none of which AARO validates as revealing genuine object behavior.
On the map
35.00° N, 38.00° E, plotted at the centre of the country
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