Disclosed

Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025

Date
2025
Place
Middle East
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

14 seconds of infrared video from a U.S. military platform over the Middle East (CENTCOM submission, 2025). An area of contrast transits left-to-right across frame in a roughly 4-second window; no other content. No accompanying report, witness statement, or AARO Comment.

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 Minimal content (most of the clip is blank), no report or witness statement, no shape/speed/size beyond a simple left-to-right transit.

As described in the file

Witnesses
Not named; military sensor operator, no direct quote
Sensors
Infrared
Motion
Transits left to right across frame
Duration
14 seconds (of which ~4 seconds show the tracked area)

Pentagon files

1

What the file claims

1
  • Unverified

    Most of the 14-second clip ('no content' at 0:00-0:04 and 0:09-0:14) shows nothing; only a roughly 4-second window shows the tracked area of contrast.

On the map

29.00° N, 45.00° E, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record

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