Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Place
- Eastern United States
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
20-second infrared video from a civilian aircraft (U.S. Navy submission, 2019), paired with Range Fouler Debrief DOW-UAP-D090. The debrief quotes an observer with 28 years of USAF/Navy service describing a small object 'travelling in a straight line opposite direction at high speed,' later assessed on review as appearing rectangular. The sensor loses the object off-screen after ~14 seconds.
What officials concluded
Unresolved
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- Department of War
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: 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
- No: 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 video plus one firsthand (not sworn) witness statement citing 28 years of comparative experience and a specific shape (rectangular) and high-speed opposing pass; no conventional explanation is offered in the debrief, but the video itself is only 20 seconds and the object exits frame and is lost, so it does not independently confirm the witness's characterization.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- One military aviator (28 years USAF/Navy service), firsthand, not sworn
- Sensors
- Infrared
- Shape
- Rectangular (per witness, on post-flight review of the recording)
- Size
- Small (per witness)
- Motion
- Traveling in a straight line, opposite direction to the observing aircraft, at high speed; exited sensor field of view when zoomed in and could not be reacquired
- Duration
- 20 seconds recorded; witness tracked visually 10-15 seconds before recording began
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR112, Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2019
Open the original on dvidshub.netDOW-UAP-D090, Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States, 2019
A Range Fouler debrief describing an object observed traveling in a straight line opposite the aircrew's direction of travel at high speed, tracked for 10-15 seconds before it left the sensor's field of view during zoom-in and could not be reacquired; post-flight analysis of the recording suggested a rectangular shape. The reporting crew member, with 28 years of USAF/Navy experience, states colleagues of equal or greater experience were also unable to identify it. This report accompanies video DOW-UAP-PR112 (not in this batch).
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What the file claims
- Unverified
The debriefed aviator says the object showed flight characteristics unlike anything he had seen in 28 years of USAF and Navy service.
- Unverified
The same reporter describes the object as small and traveling in a straight line opposite the aircraft's direction at high speed.
On the map
39.00° N, 78.00° W, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record
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