DOW-UAP-PR067, "Multiple Spherical UAP USO near Sub. [CALLSIGN] 2022/03/25 in and out of water"

Investigation reading

This Release 02 item is an official Department of War / AARO video record from manifest row 127, published in the 5/22/26 WAR.GOV/PURSUE release and mirrored through DVIDS video ID 1007779. The uploader-defined title is Multiple Spherical UAP USO near Sub. [CALLSIGN] 2022/03/25 in and out of water. That title is source/catalog language; it should not be treated by itself as proof of spherical shape, underwater transition, submarine proximity, or object identity.

The official description says AARO identified responsive materials on a classified network and warns that many of the materials lack a substantiated chain of custody. For this item, AARO assesses the video is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform and says a user uploaded it to a classified network in May 2024. The manifest itself leaves incident date and location as Not stated, while the DVIDS page lists date taken 03.25.2022 and location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION). That difference should travel as a provenance note in future analysis.

The release description identifies several source-described contrast intervals: 00:45-00:56, 00:57-01:10, 01:11-01:35, a zoom-out/loss at 01:36, 02:11-03:05, and 04:09-04:37. The description is explicitly informational only and says readers should not interpret it as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination.

What the released item appears to contain

The downloaded direct MP4 appears to show a grayscale / infrared-looking maritime sensor-display view over textured water. The video includes purple or magenta reticle/display marks and black rectangular masks around portions of the display, consistent with redaction or display-information removal. Several sampled frames show a bright elongated surface-contrast feature accompanied by adjacent streaking or disturbance-like water texture. The clearest sampled lower-frame examples appear around 00:45-00:48, 02:11, and 04:09-04:20; other sampled times show mostly water texture, washed/low-detail tonal variation, or no clear feature in the crop.

That visual wording is intentionally cautious. The sampled frames can visually resemble a surface contact with wake-like disturbance, but the samples do not establish the feature's identity, continuity across windows, physical size, distance, speed, heading, or whether any apparent disturbance is a physical wake rather than sensor processing, compression, glint, sea-state variation, or another ordinary maritime effect. The public source title uses Multiple Spherical UAP USO and in and out of water; the derived contact sheets alone do not verify those claims.

Source asset review

The individual official DVIDS/CloudFront MP4 was downloaded and inspected directly; the full Release 02 video ZIP was not used as a substitute. The direct media response returned 200, content-type: binary/octet-stream, accept-ranges: bytes, content-length: 161108257, last-modified: Fri, 22 May 2026 11:31:08 GMT, and ETag "93006f107f0022b20f987ee077166aa4-20". A byte-range probe returned 206 with content-range: bytes 0-0/161108257.

The Release 02 remote video-ZIP central directory lists video_2605_DOD_111720696_DOD_111720696.mp4 as 161,102,055 bytes with CRC32 6858c207, stored uncompressed. 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 1007779. The DVIDS page resolves to https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007779/dow-uap-pr067-multiple-spherical-uap-uso-near-sub-callsign-2022-03-25-and-out-water, with title DOW-UAP-PR067, "Multiple Spherical UAP USO near Sub. [CALLSIGN] 2022/03/25 in and out of water", category B-Roll, date taken 03.25.2022, date posted 05.22.2026 07:31, location field (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION), filename DOD_111720696, VIRIN 220325-D-D0360-4772, listed length 00:04:50, and courtesy source All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

The manifest row does not provide a separate incident date or incident location, even though the uploader-defined title and DVIDS metadata carry a 2022 date and undisclosed-location field. The release narrative also says the video was uploaded to a classified network in May 2024, roughly two years after the DVIDS date-taken field. Those are custody and timeline details to reconcile before any stronger claim is made from the footage.

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 Not stated incident date/location fields with the DVIDS date taken 03.25.2022, DVIDS (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) field, and the uploader-defined title date 2022/03/25.
• Review the source-described intervals with frame registration, original-resolution stepping, and contrast/gain controls before claiming whether any visible contact is the same feature across multiple windows.
• Seek platform, sensor, maritime operating-area, and callsign context before giving evidentiary weight to title words such as near Sub., USO, spherical, or in and out of water.
• If time/location can be narrowed, run ordinary maritime checks first: surface vessel traffic, wake/glint/sea-state effects, sensor/display artifacts, platform motion, and any available mission logs or corroborating sensor records.

Limits

This is a compressed, redacted public MP4 with no released platform telemetry, range, azimuth, altitude, sensor model, field of view, track file, original sensor file, or independent corroborating sensor record on this page. The black masks, display symbology, water texture, and sparse contact-sheet sampling limit interpretation. Contact sheets are useful for source review, but they are not a substitute for full-motion sensor analysis. 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/1007779
• DVIDS direct media asset: https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111720696/DOD_111720696.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 127, DOW-UAP-PR067, "Multiple Spherical UAP USO near Sub. [CALLSIGN] 2022/03/25 in and out of water", release date 5/22/26, agency Department of War, kind VID.