DOW-UAP-PR21 is a ten-second infrared video captured by a U.S. military platform over Iraq in May 2022, submitted by U.S. Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The footage shows two areas of contrast moving together near the center of the sensor's field of view. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D14, characterized the object as a "probable SU-27/35," designations for Russian Federation military aircraft. No OCR text was available from the document itself.
The record is classified as unresolved despite the accompanying mission report offering a probable conventional identification. The gap between that tentative identification and AARO's continued unresolved classification is not explained in the available materials. The companion document, DoW-UAP-D14, is referenced but not included in this release, leaving the full analytical basis inaccessible. The footage's brevity — ten seconds — and the absence of additional sensor data or contextual reporting limit independent assessment of the probable identification.
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