Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019 — Department of War Video (DOW-UAP-PR124)
The United States Navy Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) transferred this media to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022. The video contains 53 seconds of footage.
Incident Overview
In 2019, in the Pacific Ocean, the Department of War preserved a sensor video that was declassified and published on August 7, 2026 as part of the fifth tranche of the Department of War’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
What the government released
The United States Navy Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) transferred this media to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022. The video contains 53 seconds of footage. This footage is a secondary capture, recorded via a hand-held recording device, of an infrared sensor display aboard a U.S. military platform. This footage does not represent native primary sensor data, and the secondary recording method introduces limitations in fidelity, resolution, and overall visual quality. Artifacts inherent to filming a screen, such as blurring or flickering, may be present. The footage contained within DOW-UAP-PR123 through DOW-UAP-PR127 was captured contemporaneously. This media was digitally altered before being reported to AARO, and is presented as it was received.
Video description:
00:00-00:01: An area of contrast remains generally centered within the sensor field-of-view.
00:02-00:29: The sensor zooms in on the area of contrast.
00:30-00:53: The area of contrast loses distinctiveness against the background.
This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
Related records
This clip is one of several captured during the same event. The others are Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean (DOW-UAP-PR123), Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean (DOW-UAP-PR125), Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean (DOW-UAP-PR126), and Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean (DOW-UAP-PR127), recorded contemporaneously, and the sequence is best watched together — the separate files are views of one reported encounter, not separate encounters.
Status of the case
Records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which means the federal government has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Where AARO has offered a likely source for an item — an infrared sensor aboard a military aircraft, a commercial camera, or a known optical effect — that attribution is the agency’s working assessment rather than a final determination. Conventional candidates such as drones, balloons, flares, satellites, parallax and forced-perspective artifacts, and ordinary aircraft remain on the table for any unresolved case absent better data than a single sensor pass or a witness recollection.