"Cigar Shaped or Fast Spherical UAP clip 15 OCT 22"
- Date
- 15 Oct 2022
- Place
- CENTCOM
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Uploader-titled 'Cigar Shaped or Fast Spherical UAP', assessed by AARO as likely from a US platform in CENTCOM on 15 October 2022, uploaded to a classified network June 2024. The 21-second file is digitally altered with slow-motion replays; AARO's neutral description states only that 'an area of contrast transits the sensor field-of-view from left to right', confirming neither a cigar nor a spherical shape.
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
- Yes: 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. Uploader's title asserts a specific shape ('Cigar Shaped or Fast Spherical') that AARO's own neutral description does not corroborate, and the clip was replayed at slower speeds by the uploader before release.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Unknown uploader, unverified chain of custody
- Sensors
- Infrared (single sensor), assessed not confirmed
- Shape
- Uploader claims cigar or spherical; AARO description does not confirm a shape
- Motion
- Transits left to right; replayed at reduced speed twice by uploader
- Duration
- 21 seconds
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR053, "Cigar Shaped or Fast Spherical UAP clip 15 OCT 22"
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What the file claims
- Unverified
AARO's own neutral description of this clip does not confirm either shape claimed in the uploader's title (cigar-shaped or fast spherical); it describes only an undifferentiated area of contrast.
On the map
28.00° N, 55.00° E, plotted at the theatre of operations named in the file
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