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DOW-UAP-PR054, "Spherical UAP Erratic movement [CALLSIGN] (Mission) 2022"

This Release 02 record is a Department of War video row from the 5/22/26 WAR.GOV/PURSUE manifest. The manifest row is 113, kind VID, agency Department of War, incident date 2022, and incident location EUCOM. The official DVIDS page is https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007711.

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DOW-UAP-PR054, "Spherical UAP Erratic movement [CALLSIGN] (Mission) 2022"

Investigation reading

This Release 02 record is a Department of War video row from the 5/22/26 WAR.GOV/PURSUE manifest. The manifest row is 113, kind VID, agency Department of War, incident date 2022, and incident location EUCOM. The official DVIDS page is https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007711.

The source description is careful. AARO says the Release 02 collection was identified after a March 6, 2026 congressional request for access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. It also says many materials in the collection lack a substantiated chain of custody. For this item, AARO assesses that the video is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating in the United States European Command area of responsibility in August 2022, and that a user uploaded it to a classified network in June 2024.

The official page and manifest also say the media was digitally altered before upload and is presented as received. That is a major limit: apparent movement and performance in the public MP4 cannot be treated as raw sensor behavior without the original export, platform/sensor geometry, and an alteration history.

What the released item appears to contain

The public MP4 is a 3:57 grayscale sensor-display-style video. The official description divides it into two segments: from 00:00 to 00:45, an area of contrast generally appears near the center of the frame while the sensor pans to track it; from 00:46 to 03:57, the video appears to cut and refocus on an area of contrast that intermittently passes in and out of frame as the sensor pans to track it.

Representative sampled frames show a monochrome, low-detail display with changing tonal backgrounds, intermittent overlay or reticle-like marks, and a compact bright contrast feature or cluster in multiple samples. Some samples show a faint smear or halo around the bright feature, and some frames contain masking or display-boundary-like dark regions. These samples support only cautious source-review language: the public file shows a high-contrast image feature in a sensor/display presentation, not a verified object identity, range, size, altitude, speed, or anomalous origin.

PR054 representative full-frame samples from the official MP4

PR054 representative center-crop samples from the official MP4

Source asset review

The DVIDS page exposed the direct official MP4 at https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111719726/DOD_111719726.mp4. The response was HTTP 200 with Content-Type: binary/octet-stream, Content-Length: 61738864, Accept-Ranges: bytes, Last-Modified: Fri, 22 May 2026 11:45:07 GMT, and ETag "5c0fdeee79d2378aa51bafb0edb68867-8".

Downloaded source-asset facts:

FieldValue
Direct MP4 SHA-256dc7f11bf9ccb567929b22350dd7cc117c03f90b98a73335b056bd714fdabe58d
Direct MP4 size61,738,864 bytes
ContainerQuickTime / MOV (mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2)
Duration237.2 seconds, matching the official 00:03:57 length
Video streamH.264, 1280x720, 30 fps, 7,116 frames, yuv420p
Audio streamAAC stereo, 48 kHz, about 237.1507 seconds
Audio signal checkdecoded audio RMS 0.0, max absolute sample 0.0

The Release 02 video ZIP central-directory inventory lists the matching entry as video_2605_DOD_111719726_DOD_111719726.mp4, size 61,733,262 bytes, CRC32 37759e7a. The direct DVIDS MP4 is 5,602 bytes larger than that ZIP-entry size. That is a source-custody reconciliation lead, not evidence of content difference by itself.

DVIDS page metadata observed for the same asset: date taken 08.01.2022, date posted 05.22.2026 07:30, category B-Roll, video ID 1007711, VIRIN 220822-D-D0360-6084, filename DOD_111719726, length 00:03:57, and location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION).

Source custody and provenance

Primary provenance is the official WAR.GOV/PURSUE Release 02 manifest and the DVIDS media page. The manifest title is DOW-UAP-PR054, "Spherical UAP Erratic movement [CALLSIGN] (Mission) 2022"; the DVIDS description repeats the uploader-defined title with slightly different spacing around [CALLSIGN](Mission). The DVIDS canonical route resolves to /video/1007711/dow-uap-pr054-spherical-uap-erratic-movement-callsign-mission-2022.

The most important custody caveats are source-provided: AARO says many records in this collection lack a substantiated chain of custody, this file was uploaded by a user to a classified network in June 2024, and the media was digitally altered before upload. The official description itself warns readers not to treat any part of the description as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about the event's validity, nature, or significance.

Graph context

No exact Release 02 graph record was available for DVIDS 1007711 or this slug at draft time. This page therefore relies on official manifest/DVIDS provenance and direct source-asset inspection. Any title-related or dataset-wide graph records should be treated as leads only until Release 02 ingest creates exact, provenance-linked nodes for this row.

Leads to check

  • Reconcile the direct DVIDS MP4 byte size against the Release 02 video-ZIP entry and determine whether the difference is container metadata, CloudFront/DVIDS packaging, or a real versioning difference.
  • Compare the 00:00-00:45 and 00:46-03:57 segments against any paired mission report, sensor log, or chain-of-custody record if one becomes available.
  • Obtain the alteration history or original unaltered sensor export before evaluating apparent movement, acceleration, size, or range.
  • Check ordinary and sensor-context explanations only if time, platform track, sensor mode, range, line of sight, weather, air/maritime traffic, astronomical/satellite, drone, balloon, bird/insect, and display-processing data can be sourced.
  • Add exact graph nodes and provenance relationships when the Release 02 ingest lane is ready, preserving the official manifest row and DVIDS media pointer separately from any later analysis.

Limits

This draft does not identify the contrast feature. The public MP4 is a compressed and digitally altered derivative, not a raw sensor export. The sampled contact sheets are sparse frame context and do not establish continuous motion. The audio track exists but decoded as silent in this source check. Location is only EUCOM in the manifest and (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) on DVIDS; no precise date beyond August 2022 is supplied by the official description, although DVIDS lists date taken 08.01.2022. Without source geometry and custody records, performance claims should remain out of scope.

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