"IIR 1 666 S0151 23/Video Footage of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) captured by fifth generation aircraft on 20 Jan 23"
- Date
- 2023
- Place
- NORTHCOM
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Video released by AARO under the PURSUE program (release 2), uploader-titled "IIR 1 666 S0151 23/Video Footage of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) captured by fifth generation aircraft on 20 Jan 23". AARO attributes the footage to an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the United States Northern Command area of responsibility in 2023. The blurb's shot-by-shot description records an unresolved sensor track of an "area of contrast" over 00:01:03 of footage, with panning, zooming and mode changes but no resolved shape, size or performance data. A user first uploaded the file to a classified network in July 2023; the PURSUE release is its first appearance found in the open record.
What officials concluded
Unresolved
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
- Yes: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- Yes: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: 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 Single-sensor FLIR/infrared video from one military platform; the government's own shot-by-shot description records only an "area of contrast" being panned, zoomed and tracked, with no shape, size, speed or altitude data resolved. No radar, second platform or independent witness account is cited, and no conventional explanation is offered or ruled out in the blurb.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Sensor operator/aircrew (unnamed; callsign, platform and/or weapon system redacted in blurb)
- Sensors
- FLIR/infrared
- Motion
- Sensor pans/zooms to track a moving area of contrast; no speed data given
- Duration
- 00:01:03
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR068, "IIR 1 666 S0151 23/Video Footage of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) captured by fifth generation aircraft on 20 Jan 23"
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What the file claims
- Unverified
AARO assesses the file's likely technical origin as: an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the United States Northern Command area of responsibility in 2023.
On the map
45.00° N, 100.00° W, plotted at the theatre of operations named in the file
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