Ethan Nguyen
Likely explained Department of War Video

DOW-UAP-PR38, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2013

An eight-pointed shape looks strange until you treat it as a possible sensor or display artifact.

N/A Middle East

Likely explained. Likely aircraft or ordinary source plus sensor/display bloom, processing, compression, or glare. The shape should not be treated as object geometry.

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The feature has axis-aligned arms that change with the video and interact with trails and redactions.

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and 46 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a US military platform in 2013.

Missing context
No exact dateBroad location onlyNo exact rangeNo platformNo sensor modelSource-field conflict

Video record has DVIDS ID, but date/location/platform metadata is incomplete.

How to check it
  • Verify the source record, date, and location.
  • Compare the media against the paired report or caption.
  • Check ordinary explanations before treating the object as anomalous.
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DVIDS 1006088 106.4s measured locally 1920x1080 6.0 px/s manual segment
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