DOW-UAP-PR033, Unresolved UAP Report, Syria, October 2024
DOW-UAP-PR033 is a five-second full-motion video clip submitted by U.S. Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), captured by a camera aboard a U.S. military platform over Syria in October 2024. The accompanying mission report (DoW-UAP-D32) describes the observed phenomenon as a "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" with a "light/glare halo effect" at the top of the FMV feed. The video itself shows two semi-transparent, irregularly shaped orange areas overlaying the background imagery, each persisting for under two seconds between the one- and three-second marks.
The record is classified as unresolved by AARO, meaning no definitive identification was reached. The extremely short duration of the footage — five seconds — limits analytical utility, and the visual characteristics described (halo effects, semi-transparent overlays) are consistent with known optical and sensor artifacts, though no formal determination has been published. No OCR text is available from the underlying document, and the companion report DoW-UAP-D32 is referenced but not included in this release.
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