DOW-UAP-PR041 is a 2020 incident report submitted by U.S. Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), classified as a video document and released on 2026-05-08. The record consists of one minute and 34 seconds of infrared sensor footage recorded from an unspecified U.S. military platform operating in the Arabian Gulf. The footage shows an area of contrast entering the sensor's field of view and being tracked from left to right for the duration of the clip. No oral or written description of the observation was provided by the reporting party.
The absence of any accompanying narrative or analytical commentary from the original reporter is a significant limitation, leaving the footage without contextual metadata such as altitude, speed, bearing, or platform type. No OCR text is available, suggesting the record is video-only with no embedded documentation. AARO's published video description explicitly disclaims any analytical or investigative conclusions. The record is classified as unresolved, meaning AARO did not attribute the phenomenon to a known object or event.
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