UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RELEASERELEASE 05 · AUGUST 7, 2026
PENTAGON UFO FILE · VIDEO · DOW-UAP-PR123Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019
This video is the first of five, numbered DOW-UAP-PR123 to PR127, that were recorded at the same time over the Pacific Ocean in 2019 and handed to AARO by the Navy’s UAP Task Force in 2022. It is not the sensor’s own recording: someone filmed the infrared display with a handheld device, so what you see is a screen captured by a second camera.
What the screen shows
For the first few seconds a patch of contrast sits near the center; from about 0:04 it becomes hard to tell apart from the background. At around 0:08 a contrast is visible in the center again, and the operator pans and zooms to hold it there. From 0:25 to the end of the clip, at 1 minute 4 seconds, it stays centered.
The limits of filming a screen
AARO warns that this kind of secondary capture loses fidelity and resolution compared with the sensor’s native data and can add blur or flicker from the screen itself, so small changes in the object’s look should be treated cautiously. The clip was also digitally altered before it reached AARO, which publishes it as received without saying what was changed. No platform, mission report or location beyond the Pacific is given, and the case is unresolved. Two more screen recordings, PR124 and PR125, follow; DOW-UAP-PR126 and DOW-UAP-PR127 instead appear to be handheld recordings of lights in low light.
The official description
From war.gov/UFO, released August 7, 2026, quoted in full
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 1 minute and 4 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:
00:00-00:03: An area of contrast is visible near the center of the frame.
00:04-00:07: The area of contrast loses distinctiveness against the background.
00:08-00:25: An area of contrast becomes visible near the center of the frame. The sensor pans and zooms in to focus on the area of contrast, keeping it generally within the center of the frame.
00:25-01:04: The area of contrast remains generally centered within the sensor field-of-view.
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.