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OFFICIAL VIDEO · UNITED ARAB EMIRATESThe UAE 2024 UAP Video
This 21-second infrared clip was released on May 8, 2026, in the Pentagon’s first batch of UFO and UAP files. AARO lists it as DOW-UAP-PR29, an ‘Unresolved UAP Report’ filed under the United Arab Emirates and dated June 2024. It was recorded by ‘an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform’; AARO’s listing credits the submission to U.S. Northern Command, while most of the other recent clips in the release came from Central Command.
AARO’s timeline for this video has a single entry. For the whole 21 seconds, a spot of contrast stays roughly in the center of the sensor’s view. AARO describes it as resembling ‘an inverted teardrop with a vertically linear trailing mass suspended below’. There is no recorded lock-on sequence, sensor switch or loss of track; the object simply holds its place in the frame until the clip ends.
According to AARO, the accompanying mission report described the UAP as ‘an object with a vertical pole or bar attached to the bottom of the object’. Unusually, the observer also offered a possible ordinary explanation, reporting that the UAP ‘may instead be a reflection from an object in the water’. AARO has not said whether it has tested that possibility.
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 Pentagon described the cases in the first release as ‘unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination’.
The clip is short and the description is brief, so there is little for outside analysts to work with. Its main interest is that the person who reported it flagged a mundane alternative at the time. That makes it a useful reminder that ‘unresolved’ in AARO’s files often means ‘not enough data to decide’, rather than a finding that something is beyond explanation.
