A "football-shaped" object with three radial projections over the East China Sea (2024)
INDOPACOM submitted nine seconds of infrared video from a U.S. military platform. The war.gov description is unusually specific about shape: a football-shaped body with three radial projections, one pointing straight up and two angled downward at 45 degrees. The reporter gave no description. *Method note: war.gov blocks this server, and the video itself was not viewed. Everything in this write-up comes from the official war.gov description, as reproduced and summarised on the ufotransparency.com mirror page. The same clip is published on DVIDS (linked below). Location is the incident location shown in the war.gov listing, as carried on the mirror page. The official description states that it is "informational" and not "an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination".*
Evidence, in date order (1)
- 2024INDOPACOM via AARO (U.S. military platform sensor)sensor data9 s infrared video of a football-shaped body with three projections DOW-UAP-PR46
How plausible · High
Released official sensor footage of unresolved contrasts; no identified witness or independent backing, but the data itself is real. The command submitted it to AARO; the reporter gave no description.
- ●●Access A U.S. military sensor recorded it.
- ●●No gain sought Released by the government; nobody profits.
- ●●Checkable details check out Released on war.gov (PURSUE).
- ●●Physical traces or official reaction Instrument data: the clip itself.
- ●○Restraint The uploader's title frames it as UAP without explaining it.
- ●○Character record An official record, uploader unnamed.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- INDOPACOM is the reporting command, and AARO is the receiving office. (DOW-UAP-PR46, official description as summarised by the mirror)
- The sensor data is nine seconds of infrared video from a U.S. military platform. (DOW-UAP-PR46, official description as summarised by the mirror)
- The encounter occurred in 2024 over the East China Sea. (DOW-UAP-PR46, official description as summarised by the mirror)
- The reporter submitted no oral or written description of the observation. (DOW-UAP-PR46, official description as summarised by the mirror)
- War.gov describes the imaged object as a football-shaped body with three radial projections: one vertical, two angled downward at 45 degrees. (DOW-UAP-PR46, official description as summarised by the mirror)