Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Place
- Pacific Ocean
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
1 minute 4 seconds of secondary hand-held-camera video of an infrared sensor display, transferred to AARO by the Navy UAP Task Force in 2022; one of five contemporaneous clips (PR123-127). The blurb states the media 'was digitally altered before being reported to AARO, and is presented as it was received', an unusual admitted-provenance gap not explained further. No accompanying report or witness statement, and no AARO Comment.
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
- Yes: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- Yes: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- Yes: Military aircrew
- Yes: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- Yes: 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, no report or witness statement, no described performance beyond a tracked 'area of contrast'; the admitted, unexplained digital alteration before submission to AARO further weakens rather than strengthens the evidentiary value.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Not named; U.S. military service member who hand-recorded the sensor display, no direct quote
- Sensors
- Infrared, secondary hand-held recording of the sensor display
- Motion
- Sensor pans/zooms to track an area of contrast that fades, reappears, and is then held near frame center
- Duration
- 1 minute 4 seconds
Pentagon files
DOW-UAP-PR123, Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019
Open the original on dvidshub.netDOW-UAP-PR124, Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019
53 seconds of the same Pacific Ocean hand-held-camera cluster (PR123-127), same 'digitally altered before being reported to AARO' admission. The sensor zooms in on an area of contrast, which then loses distinctiveness against the background.
Open the original on dvidshub.netDOW-UAP-PR125, Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019
28 seconds of the same Pacific Ocean cluster (PR123-127). The sensor loses and reacquires an area of contrast twice within the clip.
Open the original on dvidshub.netDOW-UAP-PR126, Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019
2 minutes 32 seconds of low-light hand-held video (not infrared) showing multiple apparent light sources, part of the same 2019 Pacific Ocean, digitally-altered cluster as PR123-125/127. The camera repeatedly zooms and pans among several light sources without settling on one.
Open the original on dvidshub.netDOW-UAP-PR127, Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019
2 minutes 29 seconds of low-light hand-held video, the companion clip to PR126, same 2019 Pacific Ocean cluster. The camera repeatedly loses and reacquires an apparent light source over the full duration, with several gaps of 'no content.'
Open the original on dvidshub.net
What the file claims
- Unverified
AARO's own description states this media was digitally altered before it was reported to AARO, and is being released as it was received (i.e., after that unexplained alteration).
On the map
15.00° N, 150.00° W, a position at sea, approximate
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