UAPTF-transferred infrared clip, three-second crossing (Western U.S., 1996)
The U.S. Navy UAP Task Force (UAPTF) transferred this media to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022. The release consists of 2 minutes 57 seconds of footage likely captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform. The Department of War released it as DOW-UAP-PR113 in PURSUE Release 04 (10 July 2026) and lists it as an unresolved UAP report. The only written content is the official timestamped video description, which calls the target an "area of contrast" and draws no conclusion. No mission report, witness statement, size, speed or range accompanies it. *Method note: war.gov blocks this server. File descriptions were read from the ufotransparency.com mirror, which reproduces or summarises the Department of War's official description; video and audio were not viewed or played. Quotation marks below are used only for wording the mirror presents as the release's own text.*
Evidence, in date order (1)
- 1996U.S. Navy UAP Task Force (via AARO, PURSUE)sensor datainfrared video DOW-UAP-PR113 released by the Department of War DOW-UAP-PR113 (war.gov), mirror page with the official description
How plausible · Moderate
Released official sensor footage of unresolved contrasts; no identified witness or independent backing, but the data itself is real. This clip was digitally altered before upload.
- ●●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.
- ●○Character record An official record, uploader unnamed.
- ●○Fits the documented skeleton Part of the documented AARO/PURSUE record of unresolved military cases.
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
- Submitted by U.S. Navy UAP Task Force (UAPTF), transferred to AARO in 2022 to AARO; incident 1996 (likely; no month given), Western United States. (DOW-UAP-PR113, official description)
- Footage: 2 minutes 57 seconds, likely an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform. (DOW-UAP-PR113, official description)
- Official video timeline (DOW-UAP-PR113, official description): 00:14-00:17: an area of contrast transits the field of view, entering near the upper right and exiting near the lower left. 00:18-01:21: the same seconds repeat frame by frame; 01:22-02:13 at slower speed; 02:14-02:56 hold on one frame extracted from the first 17 seconds.
- The media was digitally altered before being reported to the UAPTF and is presented as received; no formal data-handling practices for UAP records existed when it was reported.
- The Department of War states the video description is provided for informational purposes only and is not an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about the event's validity, nature, or significance. (DOW-UAP-PR113, official description)