Department of War - UAP Release 4

[flarkey]

Tranche 4 has just been released

https://www.war.gov/UFO/

https://www.dvidshub.net/search/?q=uap&view=grid&sort=publishdate

 

[flarkey]

Looks like a bunch of balloons...

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1014124/dow-uap-pr116-unresolved-uap-report-atlantic-ocean-2020

 

[flarkey]

The familar 6 pointed camera artefact is there again...

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1014101/dow-uap-pr104-unresolved-uap-report-yellow-sea-2025

 

[RobertBillyBob]

Four of the videos are marked as "featured" on the war.gov website.
The "featured" column is a new addition to the .csv for this release.

 

[RobertBillyBob]

PR024 and PR030 are in this release, they are filling gaps we had in the numbering from previous releases. PR020 and PR025 are still missing, they might come out one day.

 

[Jack]

PR024 and PR030 are in this release, they are filling gaps we had in the numbering from previous releases. PR020 and PR025 are still missing, they might come out one day.

PR020 was released in tranche 1:

https://www.war.gov/UFO/search/pr02...P-PR020-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Kuwait-May-2022

 

[flarkey]

This one appears to show birds
a crescent shaped craft like Kenneth Arnold saw near Mount Rainier in 1947.

https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDat...01-Unresolved-UAP-Report-South-China-Sea-2024

 

[RobertBillyBob]

PR020 was released in tranche 1:

https://www.war.gov/UFO/search/pr02...P-PR020-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Kuwait-May-2022

I missed this because I was only looking at videos, but that's a pdf containing one frame, I don't consider this as "released".

 

[RobertBillyBob]

This one appears to show birds
a crescent shaped craft like Kenneth Arnold saw near Mount Rainier in 1947.

https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDat...01-Unresolved-UAP-Report-South-China-Sea-2024

View attachment 91955

People have been dismissing the bird hypothesis because of the formation that is not V-shaped enough in their opinion.
If we can compare with PR016 which was resolved as birds, we see flattish formations are possible :
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/988673/pr-016-resolved-birds-europe-2023

 

[flarkey]

This one is weird.

https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDat...103-Unresolved-UAP-Report-East-China-Sea-2024

The United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 1 minute and 16 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2024.

Video Description:

00:01-01:16: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast, keeping it generally within the center of the frame.

00:12-01:16: An auto-tracking reticle surrounds the area of contrast. The sensor tracks the area of contrast, keeping it generally within the center of the frame.

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1014099/dow-uap-pr103-unresolved-uap-report-east-china-sea-2024

It seems to be pyramid shaped, just drifting along (could be a balloon I suppose) but at the 0m37s point it appears to open up like a flower for 5 seconds, and then close again.

Trimmed and zoomed video:

 

[John J.]

The familar 6 pointed camera artefact is there again...

I'm guessing that whoever submits a UAP image/ video to AARO isn't obliged to consider the pattern of diffraction spikes that the imaging system might show. But I'm a bit disappointed that AARO doesn't comment on what are obviously diffraction spikes.

Video Description:
00:01-00:15: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star, keeping it generally centered within the center of the screen.

DOW-UAP-PR104, Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2025 https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1014101/dow-uap-pr104-unresolved-uap-report-yellow-sea-2025

The six-pointed star seems to be the focus of interest. It's a diffraction spike pattern.
If the original observer/ image analysts aren't aware of this, it poses questions about their training. If imagery like this is being submitted by other people who have access to the imagery but don't understand it, this also raises questions.

 

[John J.]

This one is weird. ...at the 0m37s point it appears to open up like a flower ...

Maybe a focus change?

 

[RobertBillyBob]

Maybe a focus change?

It happens around the time when the objects stop moving from left to right in the frame and just before the drone start banking the other way. I think a change in the angle of reflected light is more likely.
I think this one might deserve a separate thread.