DOW-UAP-PR090, 24 August 2020, Centcom, released 22 May 2026

[Giddierone]

Quick stitch of some of the terrain seen in this Centcom area video released today.

DOW-UAP-PR090

https://www.war.gov/ufo/?releaseDat...090-24-AUG-2020-CALLSIGN-Mission-Observes-UAP

EDIT: looks like Egypt, irrigation canal and the light marks in the middle of the fields.

 

[John J.]

Indebted to @Giddierone who linked to this release in post #505, Geolocation Exercises thread.

From the current batch of releases via AARO, titled DOW-UAP-PR090, "24 AUG 2020 [CALLSIGN] (Mission) Observes UAP", https://www.war.gov/ufo/?releaseDat...090-24-AUG-2020-CALLSIGN-Mission-Observes-UAP

AARO assesses that this video, whose uploader-defined title is, "24 AUG 2020 [CALLSIGN] (Mission) Observes UAP," is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the United States Central Command area of responsibility in 2020. A user uploaded this video to a classified network in August 2020.

Video Duration: 00:04:57

Video Description:

00:00-00:03: The sensor tracks an area of contrast as it moves down the left side of the screen.
00:03-00:21: The sensor pans to track the area of contrast within the center of its field-of-view.
00:22-01:04: The sensor zooms in on the area of contrast.
01:05-01:14: The area of contrast exits and re-enters the field of view several times.
01:15-04:57: No content.

The "area of contrast" appears to display slight fluctuations in brightness, perhaps shape as it moves. I can't think of any obvious reason why it couldn't be a bird.

Video uploaded to YouTube by user "DOW Unresolved UAP" c. 23 May 2026

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88pLnhXe3yg&t=19s

 

[Mick West]

Merged the Geolocation post here.

And this was a good candidate for Sitrec's Panorama extraction

 

[Giddierone]

Sitrec's Panorama extraction

Is that a new feature? Does it remove the black boxes?

The only interesting thing to come out of these video releases is the geolocation quizzes they present. This one had me marvelling at Egyptian landscaping and irrigation derived from canals (fairly certain it's Egypt) and wondering what the light patches in the fields are. Do they gather crops to one point, or is it livestock feed or fertilizer to be distributed, etc.

 

[Mick West]

Is that a new feature? Does it remove the black boxes?

Somewhat new, it's just a bit flaky. You have to mask out the boxes and the border, then it analyzes it and tries to make a panorama based on motion analysis.

e.g
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/PR090 Pano/20260605_083827.js

 

[Giddierone]

I've been looking at the bow tie (cat's ears?) shape (red) and the main canal and smaller canal as landmarks. But in a slow manual way. I know there are tools out there to look for face shapes in google maps (https://www.creativeapplications.net/project/google-faces-searching-earth-using-facial-detection/) Is there a way to modify the search to look for a custom set of features/lines like those indicated here?

 

[flarkey]

@Giddierone I noted from the video that North is to the right so the panorama is looking West.

Also, a kml of waterways around this area is attached, obtained through https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2rb4

 

[Giddierone]

@flarkey there's also https://waterwaymap.org which shows the canal system in OSM. Although, I haven't figured out how to highlight the junctions just yet.

 

[Mick West]

looks like Egypt

But also like Iraq in the Euphrates valley. Or even Iran. Pretty large search area.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.293...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

 

[Giddierone]

Things that say Egypt to me are:
- Canals, of three different sizes
- white patches in the fields (grain?)

.
- efficient looking rectangular grids like this with shrubbery...

Then odd triangles like this with parallelogram-shaped fields next to them and odd looking inefficient fields as a result of the triangle shape.

(none of these are it though...)

I thought overpass turbo might lead to this waterway junction, (yellow box) looks like a landmark of a sort.

 

[John J.]

I agree that the ground features in the DOW-UAP-PR090 footage looks like canal-irrigated areas of Egypt.

But what would a US drone be doing over Egypt, particularly the Nile delta?
Egypt has a competent air force and operates a number of different drone types, some locally produced, others from USA and China.

It has substantial numbers of reasonably modern aircraft and ground-based air defence systems, a hypothetical uninvited Predator-type drone might not last long over the Egyptian heartland.

Circumstantially, I feel Iraq, possibly Iran might be more likely locations.

 

[Giddierone]

I agree that the ground features in the DOW-UAP-PR090 footage looks like canal-irrigated areas of Egypt.

But what would a US drone be doing over Egypt, particularly the Nile delta?
Egypt has a competent air force and operates a number of different drone types, some locally produced, others from USA and China.

It has substantial numbers of reasonably modern aircraft and ground-based air defence systems, a hypothetical uninvited Predator-type drone might not last long over the Egyptian heartland.

Circumstantially, I feel Iraq, possibly Iran might be more likely locations.

Yeahp you might be right, because despite my hunches I cannot find a match!

 

[Easy Muffin]

Might even be Pakistan, there's lots of places that look kinda sorta like this along the Indus River and its tributaries. They built up a massive canal network in that region too with lots of rectangular fields laid out in a grid pattern, scattered compounds, tree-lined roads...