DOW-UAP-PR41 is a 2020 incident report submitted by U.S. Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026. The record consists of one minute and 34 seconds of infrared sensor video 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, which the sensor then tracks from left to right for the duration of the clip. No oral or written description of the observation was provided by the reporting personnel.
The record is notably sparse: there is no accompanying narrative, no sensor metadata disclosed, no platform identification, and no analytical assessment. The absence of any reporter description limits independent evaluation of what was observed. The document fits a pattern seen across AARO-processed UAP submissions in which raw sensor footage is forwarded without contextual reporting, leaving the nature of the observed phenomenon entirely unresolved. No OCR text was recoverable from the document.
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