DOW-UAP-PR109, fliying disc ?

[Nourali]

A very interesting one in my opinion.

https://www.war.gov/UFO/?type=.vid&...esolved-UAP-Report-Eastern-United-States-2015

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 21 seconds of footage likely captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2015.

Video Description: No formal data handling practices for UAP-related records existed at the time this media was reported to the UAPTF. This media was digitally altered before being reported to the UAPTF, and is presented as it was received by AARO.

00:01-00:08: No content.

00:09-00:11: An area of contrast becomes visible near the center of the screen, The area of contrast transits the sensor field-of-view, moving from right to left before exiting from upper left corner of the frame.

00:12-00:21: The footage repeats at a slower playback speed.

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1014...ern-united-states-2015?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Despite the low resolution, the object becomes progressively more defined as it approaches. At its closest, it appears to have a distinctly tilted, lenticular shape that, to me, is difficult to reconcile with a bird, drone, aircraft, or balloon (or windblown debris).

 

[Mick West]

Despite the low resolution, the object becomes progressively more defined as it approaches. At its closest, it appears to have a distinctly tilted, lenticular shape that, to me, is difficult to reconcile with a bird, drone, aircraft, or balloon (or windblown debris).

The elongation/tilting of the shape appears to be from motion blur

(The irregular spacing here is from frame-rate mismatch in intermediate re-encoding)

It's really too low-resolution to tell much about the shape, and certainly not enough detail to rule out either balloons or aliens.

 

[JMartJr]

At its closest, it appears to have a distinctly tilted, lenticular shape that, to me, is difficult to reconcile with a bird, drone, aircraft, or balloon (or windblown debris).

Given the resolution, and (as I see now Mick has already pointed out) the likely motion blur, it looks to me to be consistent with any of those, though not sufficiently well resolved to tell if it in fact IS any of those.

 

[John J.]

This media was digitally altered before being reported to the UAPTF, and is presented as it was received by AARO.

https://www.war.gov/UFO/release/04/...esolved-UAP-Report-Eastern-United-States-2015

Isn't this problematic? It might just mean that the image was cropped to omit on-screen data, but it might mean something else.

To me it looks like IR footage of a poorly-resolved jet flying past (depending on distance, of course- or maybe its hot exhaust, perhaps afterburners are on); we're given no context or reason to exclude this possibility. As with some of the other DoW/ AARO releases, we don't know who submitted the footage and don't even know if the original observer (the platform operator) or their support team thought that the footage was in any way unusual.

I'm getting frustrated at this reporting/ release model: It seems anyone with access to (e.g.) US forces drone footage can submit it to AARO anonymously without having to demonstrate that they were the sensor operator, or that the sensor operator/ their team thought it was anomalous (as opposed to briefly interesting, or initially unidentified but later understood). AARO, following PURSUE, then releases the footage without any evidence of critical analysis whatsoever.
Hey presto, "officially recognized" UAP. Perhaps even if the original observer/ their team knew they were looking at something mundane (a jet, someone else's drone) or later realised this was probably the case (e.g. birds).

 

[MapperGuy]

What type of camera was this taken by? Almost looks like a hand-held camera from the way it rotates and pivots to follow the object.
What kind of system would have those cross-hairs?

 

[Fritzkquzerk]

It seems like we cannot determine any real shape behind that blurry dot.
It reminds me of the Beaver Drone UFO, which turned out to be probably poplar fluff, close to the camera.
This cannot be the same thing, but rather the same phenomenon? An out of focus bird perhaps?

 

[Ravi]

It seems like we cannot determine any real shape behind that blurry dot.

Indeed. Like 99% of the released videos.