"09JUN2021 [Platform] observed UAP in the ECS"

Date: 2021
Place: East China Sea
Record: Pentagon file
Assessment: Not assessed
Evidence strength

467 case pages by decade; this one falls in 2020s with 169 othersAll cases

What was reported

Video released by AARO under the PURSUE program (release 2), uploader-titled "09JUN2021 [Platform] observed UAP in the ECS". AARO attributes the footage to an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating above the East China Sea in 2021. The blurb's shot-by-shot description records an unresolved sensor track of an "area of contrast" over 00:00:23 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 June 2021; 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

Evidence profile

Sensors1 of 9

No: Visual
Yes: Infrared
No: Radar
No: Video
No: Photo
No: Film
No: Audio
No: Night vision
No: Other sensor

Witnessescount not stated

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

Shapenot stated

No: Light only
No: Orb or sphere
No: Disc
No: Triangle
No: Cylinder
No: Cube
No: Other shape

Effectsnone reported

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: 00:00:23

Pentagon files

VideoDOW-UAP-PR075Release 2
DOW-UAP-PR075, "09JUN2021 [Platform] observed UAP in the ECS"
Open the original on dvidshub.net

What the file claims

Unverified
AARO assesses the file's likely technical origin as: an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating above the East China Sea in 2021.

On the map

29.00° N, 125.00° E, a position at sea, approximate

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