DOW-UAP-PR065, "USCG C-144 Tyndall UAP 2 TIC TAC IR hot 24 April 2024"

Investigation reading

This Release 02 item is an official Department of War / AARO video record from manifest row 125, published in the 5/22/26 WAR.GOV/PURSUE release and mirrored through DVIDS video ID 1007777. The uploader-defined title is USCG C-144 Tyndall UAP 2 TIC TAC IR hot 24 April 2024. The release text is careful: AARO says the video is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. Coast Guard platform operating in the Southeastern United States in 2024, and it also states that many responsive materials lack a substantiated chain of custody.

The official description is narrow. It says 00:00-00:32 shows a sensor panning to keep an area of contrast in the field of view, and that at 00:33 the sensor pans left, causing the area of contrast to leave the field of view on the right side of the frame. The description is explicitly informational only; it is not an analytical judgment or a finding about the event's validity, nature, or significance.

What the released item appears to contain

The downloaded source media is a short, low-resolution sky / cloud sequence. In the sampled frames reviewed here, the imagery has muted blue-gray and greenish tones with scattered cloud bands and atmospheric haze. Unlike some other release videos, these sampled frames do not show visible reticles, telemetry, range marks, sensor overlays, or platform metadata inside the image area.

The official release calls out an area of contrast, but the sampled contact sheets do not clearly resolve a discrete target with stable boundaries, measurable shape, or obvious independent motion relative to the cloud field. The 00:30-00:38 exit-window samples, including a right-half crop of the frame, show diffuse cloud texture and tonal variation; they do not by themselves make a contrast area cleanly traceable as it exits frame right. The correct posture is therefore source-review cautious: this is a released official video with a source-described contrast area, not a verified object identification or performance finding.

Source asset review

The individual official DVIDS/CloudFront MP4 was downloaded and inspected directly rather than substituting the full Release 02 video ZIP. The direct media response returned 200, accept-ranges: bytes, content-length: 1357057, last-modified: Fri, 22 May 2026 11:31:06 GMT, and ETag "a8d8f2995766f9e559823a4b2c2dfd9f". A byte-range probe returned 206 with content-range: bytes 0-0/1357057.

The Release 02 remote video-ZIP central directory lists video_2605_DOD_111720692_DOD_111720692.mp4 as 1,351,938 bytes with CRC32 33078045. That does not match the downloaded direct DVIDS MP4 size or CRC32. Until the ZIP entry is byte-compared against the direct DVIDS object, this should be treated as a source-custody/versioning lead, not as a substantive finding about the imagery.

Source custody and provenance

Primary public provenance for this page is the official WAR.GOV/PURSUE Release 02 landing page, the Release 02 manifest row, and the DVIDS page for video 1007777. The DVIDS page resolved to https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007777/dow-uap-pr065-uscg-c-144-tyndall-uap-2-tic-tac-ir-hot-24-april-2024, with title DOW-UAP-PR065, "USCG C-144 Tyndall UAP 2 TIC TAC IR hot 24 April 2024", category B-Roll, date taken 04.24.2024, date posted 05.22.2026 07:31, location field US, filename DOD_111720692, VIRIN 240424-D-D0360-2094, and courtesy source All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

There are duration and custody details to preserve. The manifest description says Video Duration: 00:00:38, DVIDS lists 00:00:39, and the downloaded direct MP4 measures about 39.57 seconds by container inspection. The release also says a user uploaded the video to a classified network in June 2024 and that many materials in the responsive collection lack a substantiated chain of custody. Those statements should travel with any future timeline or platform analysis.

Graph context

No exact Release 02 graph record was returned for this slug, title, or DVIDS ID during this run's read-only graph context check. That is not a source-access problem; it means this page is currently anchored to official manifest/DVIDS provenance while graph ingest for Release 02 catches up. Future title-related or dataset-wide graph hits should be treated as leads until their provenance links resolve back to this exact official asset.

Leads to check

• Byte-compare the direct DVIDS MP4 against the Release 02 video-ZIP entry because the current direct-file size/CRC32 and ZIP central-directory size/CRC32 do not match.
• Reconcile the manifest 00:00:38 duration, DVIDS 00:00:39 length, and direct MP4 39.572867-second container duration before using timing as evidence.
• Seek platform or mission-context records for the USCG C-144 / Tyndall wording, sensor mode, aircraft motion, and any original track/custody data.
• Review the 00:00-00:33 source-described contrast area with frame registration, contrast stretching, and original-resolution frame stepping if a future analyst needs a stronger motion statement. The sampled contact sheets here do not establish a discrete object track.
• Confirm whether any related Coast Guard, AARO, or DVIDS metadata can narrow the Southeastern United States / Tyndall context without over-reading the uploader-defined title.

Limits

This is a short, compressed, redacted public video with no released platform telemetry, range, azimuth, altitude, sensor parameters, original sensor file, target track file, or independent corroborating sensor record on this page. The sampled imagery is dominated by clouds, haze, and low-contrast tonal variation. The title phrase TIC TAC IR hot is source/catalog wording; it should not be repeated as an object-shape or thermal-performance finding without stronger underlying data. This page is a source-review draft and not a finding.

Sources

• WAR.GOV/PURSUE Release 02 landing page: https://www.war.gov/UFO/
• DVIDS video page: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007777
• DVIDS direct media asset: https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111720692/DOD_111720692.mp4
• Release 02 document bundle: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/052226/release_02/release_02_document_bundle.zip
• Release 02 video bundle: https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/uap052226.zip
• Official Release 02 manifest row 125, DOW-UAP-PR065, "USCG C-144 Tyndall UAP 2 TIC TAC IR hot 24 April 2024", release date 5/22/26, agency Department of War, kind VID.