UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RECORDSENSOR FOOTAGE
OFFICIAL VIDEO · AEGEAN SEAThe Greece 2023 UAP Video
This infrared clip, just under three minutes long, was published on May 8, 2026, in the Pentagon’s first batch of UFO and UAP files. AARO catalogues it as DOW-UAP-PR34, an ‘Unresolved UAP Report’ from Greece, October 2023, submitted by U.S. Central Command and recorded by ‘an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform’. The release’s listing for the mission report gives the location and date as the Aegean Sea, October 27, 2023.
At four seconds a spot of contrast enters the bottom left of the frame. For the next 15 seconds it moves back and forth across the screen as the sensor pans to follow it, then stays roughly centered. From one minute to just after two minutes the sensor marks it with a blue reticle. A contrast filter is then applied, but at 2:22 the spot becomes indistinguishable from the background and the lock drops.
For the final half-minute the sensor rapidly cycles through zoom levels and contrast settings without reacquiring the object. According to AARO, the accompanying mission report described the object as flying near the surface of the ocean and making multiple ‘90-degree turns’ at approximately 80 miles per hour. The release listing quotes the report as describing an object ‘flying just above the surface of the ocean’.
AARO attaches the same caution to every description in the release: it is ‘provided for informational purposes only’ and is not ‘an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination’. The turns and speed come from the observer’s report rather than from any published measurement, and AARO’s own timeline notes that the early side-to-side movement happens ‘as the sensor pans to track it’.
No official explanation has been published. The case is typical of the recent military reports in the 2026 release: a small, low-contrast object seen by a single infrared sensor, a brief written account and no stated resolution. Its value lies less in what it proves than in showing the kind of raw material AARO receives, and how difficult such footage is to interpret without range or radar data.
