A five-second diagonal crossing in AFRICOM (18 October 2020)
This is a 4 min 59 s infrared clip uploaded in October 2020. The only content, from 00:58 to 01:03, is an area of contrast crossing from near the top left to near the bottom right. It may be connected to DOW-UAP-PR082 two days earlier, also in AFRICOM, but the release does not link them. *Method note: war.gov blocks this server, and the video itself was not viewed. Everything here comes from the official war.gov description, as reproduced and summarised on the ufotransparency.com mirror page. Release 02 states that on 6 March 2026 eight members of the House asked for 51 potentially UAP-related records. AARO found the responsive material on a classified network, and many items "lack a substantiated chain-of-custody". The quoted titles are uploader-defined, not AARO's, and AARO describes its descriptions as informational only, not analytical judgments. No DVIDS copy of the Release 02 videos was found.*
Evidence, in date order (1)
- 22 May 2026AARO / Department of War (PURSUE Release 02)sensor datareleased infrared sensor footage of the event, with official timestamped description DOW-UAP-PR081 (war.gov), mirror page with the official description
How plausible · High
Released official sensor footage of unresolved contrasts; no identified witness or independent backing, but the data itself is real.
- ●●Access A U.S. military sensor recorded it.
- ●●No gain sought Released by the government; nobody profits.
- ●●Checkable details check out Released on war.gov (PURSUE).
- ●●Physical traces or official reaction Instrument data: the clip itself.
- ●○Restraint The uploader's title frames it as UAP without explaining it.
- ●○Character record An official record, uploader unnamed.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- AARO assesses the video is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in the AFRICOM area of responsibility in 2020. (DOW-UAP-PR081, official description as summarised by the mirror)
- A user uploaded the video to a classified network in October 2020. (DOW-UAP-PR081, official description as summarised by the mirror)
- Total video duration is 00:04:59, with content present only between 00:58 and 01:03. (DOW-UAP-PR081, official description as summarised by the mirror)
- During the 00:58 to 01:03 window, an area of contrast transits the sensor field-of-view from near the top left corner to near the bottom right corner of the screen. (DOW-UAP-PR081, official description as summarised by the mirror)