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DOW-UAP-PR052, "UAP USO Formation [CALLSIGN] (Mission)"

This Release 02 item is an official Department of War video row from the 5/22/26 WAR.GOV/PURSUE manifest: release row 111, kind VID, DVIDS video ID 1007708. The manifest title is DOW UAP PR052, "UAP USO Formation [CALLSIGN] (Mission)"; both incident date and incident location ar…

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DOW-UAP-PR052, "UAP USO Formation [CALLSIGN] (Mission)"

Investigation reading

This Release 02 item is an official Department of War video row from the 5/22/26 WAR.GOV/PURSUE manifest: release row 111, kind VID, DVIDS video ID 1007708. The manifest title is DOW-UAP-PR052, "UAP USO Formation [CALLSIGN] (Mission)"; both incident date and incident location are listed as Not stated.

The DVIDS page for the same asset resolves to the matching PR052 title and exposes a direct official MP4 under filename DOD_111719718. DVIDS lists date taken 06.01.2024, date posted 05.22.2026 07:30, category B-Roll, VIRIN 240624-D-D0360-5684, length 00:08:15, and location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION). The official description says the video was uploaded to a classified network in June 2024; the DVIDS date-taken field should therefore be treated as source metadata, not as an independently confirmed incident time.

AARO's published description says this video is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform and that the media was digitally altered before upload to a classified network. That custody warning matters: this page treats the released MP4 as a source artifact for review, not as proof of object identity, origin, underwater activity, formation geometry, speed, or anomalous behavior.

What the released item appears to contain

The released MP4 is an 8:15.54 presentation-style video centered on source-described small contrast areas in a noisy, monochrome sensor-view scene. The official description breaks the video into a brief opening transit, a cut/refocus on four contrast areas, multiple contrast-filter and zoom sections, a closer zoom section, progressive image degradation, and a final cut or zoom-out that appears to return to an earlier-looking view.

Source-frame sampling supports only cautious visual language. The sampled frames show grayscale, infrared-like imagery over a textured, possibly water-like background; small bright/white contrast patches that appear in groups; black masks or display-boundary regions; crosshair/reticle-like overlays with slight colored fringing in some frames; shifts in contrast, brightness, gain, zoom, and framing; and late-frame degradation including heavy grain, banding, and one decoded solid-green frame that should be treated as a display/encoding/decode artifact candidate unless confirmed by separate playback.

Time windowSource-described contentSource-review note
00:00-00:05Four areas of contrast transit from the lower-left third toward the lower-right third of the frame.Sampled stills show multiple small bright contrast patches in a noisy, textured field. The frames support "multiple contrast areas visible," but not a final object count or identity.
00:06-00:38The video appears to cut and refocus on four areas of contrast; sensor-display elements enter and exit.Sampled frames show similar bright patches plus visible display/reticle elements near the right side in later samples.
00:39-06:08Multiple cuts with contrast filters and zoom levels; sensor-display elements enter and exit.Sampling shows strong processing variation: contrast/gain changes, black masked regions, reticle/crosshair overlays, zoom/framing changes, and changing visibility of the background texture.
06:09-06:50Sensor zooms in on four contrast areas.Sampled frames are increasingly noisy and low-detail; the visible features become harder to separate from image texture, compression, and processing.
06:51-08:10Contrast areas become increasingly indistinct as video quality degrades.Late samples show heavy grain, banding, smearing, and limited fine detail. One sampled decode at about 06:50 is a solid green frame, which is best handled as a possible media/display artifact rather than scene evidence.
08:11-08:15Video appears to cut or zoom out, likely cutting to an earlier portion with the contrast areas more visible.The final sampled frames show a small high-contrast loop-like visual feature against horizontally banded grayscale imagery. The public MP4 does not establish what the feature is.

Derived contact sheets from the downloaded official MP4 are included for page-level visual context. They are sampled frames from the released MP4, not independent evidence and not an enhancement of the underlying source beyond resizing and labeling.

Sampled frames across the official PR052 MP4

Opening transit-window samples from the official PR052 MP4

Filter, zoom, and display-change samples from the official PR052 MP4

Late degradation and final cut/zoom-out samples from the official PR052 MP4

Source asset review

The individual official media file was downloaded from the direct DVIDS/CloudFront MP4 URL exposed on the DVIDS page, not from the full 5.3 GB Release 02 video ZIP. The HTTP source response returned status 200, Accept-Ranges: bytes, Content-Type: binary/octet-stream, Content-Length: 513,739,591, Last-Modified: Fri, 22 May 2026 11:30:26 GMT, and ETag "630f8183f2bc218194d36f3ef3f67707-62".

Downloaded source-media facts:

FieldValue
Direct MP4 byte size513,739,591 bytes
Direct MP4 SHA-256e67b3a3b3d863ef88cc8c4e6b73e9c9bff896506a2962956ed70f508fd8815f5
ContainerQuickTime / MP4 / M4V-compatible (mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2)
Video streamH.264, 1920×1080, 24 fps, 11,893 frames, about 495.54 seconds
Audio streamAAC stereo, 48,000 Hz, about 495.50 seconds
Audio signal checkThe full decoded AAC stereo stream measured RMS 0.0 and max absolute sample 0.0; the public MP4 audio is effectively silent.

The Release 02 video ZIP central-directory inventory also lists video_2605_DOD_111719718_DOD_111719718.mp4, CRC32 e32b1e04, size 513,733,696 bytes. That ZIP-entry size is close to, but not byte-identical with, the direct DVIDS MP4 size above. Treat the direct MP4 and ZIP entry as related official distribution paths that still deserve exact byte-level reconciliation before any final custody claim.

The MP4 duration of about 495.54 seconds is consistent with DVIDS length 00:08:15 and the official description's rounded 00:08:16 duration. The public asset remains a compressed, edited/digitally altered presentation video; it is not a raw sensor export with telemetry.

Source custody and provenance

Primary provenance is the official WAR.GOV/PURSUE Release 02 manifest and the official DVIDS video page. The row is redacted, and the official description states that many responsive materials lack a substantiated chain of custody. It also states that this particular media was digitally altered prior to its upload to a classified network and is presented as received.

Important custody points:

  • WAR.GOV/PURSUE Release 02 manifest: release date 5/22/26, row 111, Department of War, kind VID, DVIDS ID 1007708, incident date Not stated, incident location Not stated.
  • DVIDS page: title DOW-UAP-PR052, "UAP USO Formation [CALLSIGN] (Mission)", filename DOD_111719718, VIRIN 240624-D-D0360-5684, date taken 06.01.2024, date posted 05.22.2026 07:30, length 00:08:15, location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION).
  • Direct official MP4: 513,739,591 bytes, SHA-256 e67b3a3b3d863ef88cc8c4e6b73e9c9bff896506a2962956ed70f508fd8815f5.
  • Release 02 video ZIP inventory entry: video_2605_DOD_111719718_DOD_111719718.mp4, CRC32 e32b1e04, size 513,733,696 bytes.
  • The title phrase UAP USO Formation is a source label. It should not be converted into a finding that the video proves underwater origin, object identity, or formation mechanics.

Graph context

The current graph check found no exact Release 02 graph node for this slug, title, or DVIDS ID. That absence is not a blocker for the wiki page: this investigation draft is grounded in the official manifest, DVIDS page, and downloaded MP4 review.

Any future graph entries for PR052 should preserve the source distinction between the manifest row, the DVIDS page, the direct MP4, the Release 02 ZIP entry, the official descriptive claims, and the Open Sky source-review notes. Title-related or dataset-wide graph records, if added later, should be treated as leads unless they are tied to this exact DVIDS ID or source-media hash.

Leads to check

  • Reconcile the direct DVIDS MP4 byte size/hash against the Release 02 video ZIP entry size/CRC without downloading the full release ZIP unnecessarily.
  • Seek an unaltered source export, if one exists, because the released source says the media was digitally altered before upload.
  • Clarify whether DVIDS date taken 06.01.2024 is an event date, upload-placeholder date, or DVIDS publication metadata artifact.
  • Obtain or model sensor context: platform, field of view, look angle, stabilization state, zoom transitions, frame timing, range, and whether black masks/reticles are display overlays or redactions.
  • Review the solid-green sampled frame and late horizontal banding in a separate playback/codec environment to distinguish source-file content from decoder/display behavior.
  • Do ordinary-source correlation only after a real date, time, and location are available: maritime traffic, aircraft/drone activity, buoys/debris, weather/sea state, satellite/reentry, and sensor/display artifact lanes.

Limits

This page does not assert that the video shows anomalous objects. The public MP4 is a compressed presentation video with cuts, digital alteration, contrast/filter changes, zoom changes, display overlays, black masked regions, a silent audio stream, no public telemetry, no exact incident date, no public location, no platform geometry, no range, and no substantiated public chain of custody.

The words UAP, USO, and Formation appear in the source title and official release metadata. In this draft they are treated as source labels, not as findings. Apparent multiple contrast patches in the opening and later segments may reflect physical objects, sensor/display processing, water-surface texture, reflections, compression, stabilization behavior, edits, or a combination of those factors.

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