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Middle East, 2013

2013
Middle East

Unresolved
Representative drawing from the From orbit page, not this specific sighting.

The official description

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and 46 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2013. Video Description: This video depicts an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length. 00:10: The sensor field-of-view narrows to zoom in on the area of contrast. 00:11-00:29: The area of contrast moves within the sensor field-of-view, followed by a visible trail. 00:30: The area of contrast leaves the sensor field-of-view at the bottom right of the screen.

Quoted from the U.S. Department of War, PURSUE UAP releases. Read every file for this incident in Official files or at war.gov/UFO.

Witnesses

Not named in the files

Explanation

Unresolved

The official files offer no explanation.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of War, PURSUE UAP releases (war.gov/UFO)war.gov
  2. U.S. Department of War, Release 01: DOW-UAP-PR038, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2013war.gov

From the U.S. Department of War PURSUE releases. The description is quoted from the official file.