Summary
U.S. Central Command provided AARO with a four-minute, 53-second infrared video of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon recorded by a U.S. military platform in 2020. The reporter gave no oral or written description, and the object intermittently faded against the background while the sensor switched imaging modalities.
Detail
This PURSUE-declassified record contains four minutes and 53 seconds of infrared sensor footage submitted by U.S. Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The video was captured by a U.S. military platform over the Arabian Gulf in 2020, with no description provided by the reporter.
In the footage, an area of contrast enters from the bottom-left corner and is tracked by the sensor, intermittently losing distinctiveness against the background and appearing to disappear and reappear. The sensor zooms in, pans erratically, and switches imaging modalities multiple times, with the object shifting position relative to the center of the frame. The Department of War supplied the description for information only.
