Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023
- Date
- 2023
- Place
- Yellow Sea
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Video released by AARO under the PURSUE program (release 4), uploader-titled "Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023". AARO attributes the footage to an electro-optical and infrared sensor system aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023. The blurb's shot-by-shot description records an unresolved sensor track of an "area of contrast" over 4 minutes and 57 seconds of footage, with panning, zooming and mode changes but no resolved shape, size or performance data.
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 electro-optical/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
- Electro-optical, infrared
- Motion
- Sensor pans/zooms to track a moving area of contrast; no speed data given
- Duration
- 4 minutes and 57 seconds
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR100, Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023
Open the original on dvidshub.net
What the file claims
- Unverified
AARO assesses the file's likely technical origin as: an electro-optical and infrared sensor system aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023.
On the map
36.00° N, 123.00° E, a position at sea, approximate
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