"ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinity of Karaganda International Airport"
- Date
- 2022
- Place
- Kazakhstan
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Video released by AARO under the PURSUE program (release 2), uploader-titled "ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinity of Karaganda International Airport". AARO attributes the footage to a commercially available cellular device’s rear-facing camera in February 2022. The blurb's shot-by-shot description records an unresolved sensor track of an "area of contrast" over 00:00:17 of footage, with panning, zooming and mode changes but no resolved shape, size or performance data. AARO notes the media was digitally altered before it entered the record and is presented as received. A user first uploaded the file to a classified network in April 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
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- Yes: 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
- Yes: 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, visible-light cell-phone video of a luminous point with fading trails; AARO's own note states the media was digitally altered before upload, which further degrades evidentiary value; no corroborating sensor or witness statement.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Sensor operator/aircrew (unnamed; callsign, platform and/or weapon system redacted in blurb)
- Sensors
- Cell-phone camera
- Lights and colour
- Luminous phenomenon with trails of diminishing brightness (visible-light phone video)
- Motion
- Sensor pans/zooms to track a moving area of contrast; no speed data given
- Duration
- 00:00:17
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR072, "ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinity of Karaganda International Airport"
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What the file claims
- Unverified
AARO assesses the file's likely technical origin as: a commercially available cellular device’s rear-facing camera in February 2022.
On the map
48.00° N, 68.00° E, plotted at the centre of the country
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