DOW-UAP-PR074, "[CALLSIGN] (Mission)HD_20220613"

Investigation reading

This Release 02 item is an official Department of War / AARO video record from manifest row 134, published in the 5/22/26 WAR.GOV/PURSUE release and mirrored through DVIDS video ID 1007791. The public title is preserved as source/catalog language: "[CALLSIGN] (Mission)HD_20220613". The bracketed callsign, redacted wording, and Mission label should not be expanded beyond the public source record.

The official release description says eight U.S. House members requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. AARO identified responsive materials held on a classified network and warns that many of these materials lack a substantiated chain of custody. For this row, AARO assesses that the public video is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating in the United States Central Command area of responsibility in June 2022, and says a user uploaded it to a classified network in June 2022.

The source-provided video description lists a duration of 00:04:45. It describes several short intervals in the first two minutes where the sensor pans, zooms, and tracks areas of contrast; a long 02:06-03:42 interval marked as No content; and a late 03:43-04:43 sequence where several or four small contrast areas become visible, the sensor tracks one or more areas, cycles zoom levels, and finally switches modalities before refocusing on a centered area of contrast. The same description is explicitly informational only and should not be interpreted as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about validity, nature, or significance.

The DVIDS page resolves to a canonical page for video 1007791 and lists category B-Roll, date taken 06.01.2022, date posted 05.22.2026 07:30, location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION), filename DOD_111720775, VIRIN 230101-D-D0360-1918, and length 00:04:45.

What the released item appears to contain

The downloaded direct MP4 is a 1280×720 sensor-display clip with grayscale imagery, a central reticle/crosshair, small cyan/blue display markers, and repeated black masking or redaction blocks near the top, edges, and lower-right corner. The public source says the imagery is likely infrared; this page treats that as source language, not as an independent Open Sky sensor determination.

Sampled frames from the opening two minutes show changing gray fields, mottled or speckled background texture, intermittent darker or brighter contrast regions, apparent zoom/framing changes, and persistent display overlays. Some frames include large black no-content or occlusion regions, and some lower-information frames show mostly smooth gray gradients with little target detail. These samples are consistent with the source description of a sensor display cycling zoom and tracking contrast areas, but they do not establish object identity, range, altitude, speed, or anomalous performance.

During the source-described 02:06-03:42 no-content interval, sampled frames contain mostly low-information display fields, overlays, masks, and occasional small dark blocks rather than a clearly reviewable target sequence. That interval should be treated as low-content public video, even where the display itself is not literally black in every sample.

The late-window samples from roughly 03:40 through 04:44 show the clearest visual changes in this review. Around 03:44-04:00, several small dark contrast spots or clusters appear against mottled grayscale backgrounds. Around 03:52, 04:08-04:12, and 04:28-04:32, the view becomes low-information or nearly blank. Around 04:36 and 04:44, a larger rounded dark contrast region is visible low in the frame and then closer to the lower center, surrounded by brighter speckled texture. A visible blue/teal-toned mode or contrast change appears around 04:40. These sampled frames support cautious statements about visible contrast areas and display/mode changes, but they do not prove whether the late-window contrast areas are separate physical objects, the same feature viewed under changing sensor settings, background texture, compression, redaction, or other display artifacts.

The MP4 includes an AAC stereo audio stream, but a full decoded audio check returned zero signal in this run (RMS 0.0, mean absolute sample 0.0, max absolute sample 0.0). No transcript or audible content is quoted here. The contact sheets below are derived review aids from the downloaded official MP4; they are not independent evidence and should not be used to infer cause or identity.

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: 77412815, last-modified: Fri, 22 May 2026 11:30:50 GMT, and ETag "52887c7c48c73c88cb19d0b05b8b0b5b-10". A byte-range probe returned 206 with content-range: bytes 0-0/77412815.

The Release 02 remote video-ZIP central directory lists video_2605_DOD_111720775_DOD_111720775.mp4 as 77,406,190 bytes with CRC32 f0660e0c, 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 1007791. The public DVIDS page resolves to https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007791/dow-uap-pr074-callsign-missionhd-20220613 and exposes the direct media asset at https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111720775/DOD_111720775.mp4.

The custody posture is intentionally bounded. The public release says many responsive materials lack a substantiated chain of custody. This row also says the video was uploaded to a classified network in June 2022 and is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating in the United States Central Command area of responsibility in June 2022. The DVIDS catalog fields add a 06.01.2022 date taken, (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) location, and VIRIN 230101-D-D0360-1918; those catalog fields should be reconciled against any original AARO, platform, or classified-network records before asserting exact event timing or location. This page preserves the official manifest/DVIDS provenance and the downloaded-source inspection facts without converting the title, visible contrast regions, or AARO summary into an Open Sky finding.

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

• Reconcile the manifest's CENTCOM location field, the DVIDS (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) field, the 06.01.2022 DVIDS date taken, the 230101-D-D0360-1918 VIRIN, and the source statement that a user uploaded the video to a classified network in June 2022 before asserting a precise event date or location.
• Byte-compare the direct DVIDS MP4 against the Release 02 video-ZIP entry because the direct-file size/CRC32 and ZIP central-directory size/CRC32 do not match.
• Review the late 03:43-04:43 window in full motion before treating the source-described several/four areas of contrast as separate physical objects; still samples show multiple contrast areas but do not resolve display artifacts, compression, background texture, or changing sensor settings.
• Identify the sensor/display mode, zoom settings, redacted visual elements, and the source-described modality switch near 04:40. The public MP4 lacks original telemetry, platform position, line of sight, range, and exact recording time.
• Run prosaic context checks before escalation: ordinary thermal targets, aircraft, drones, birds, balloons, flares, sensor contrast/zoom artifacts, platform motion/parallax, display/redaction artifacts, CENTCOM-area airspace activity, weather, and any available military or civilian incident logs for June 2022.

Limits

This is a compressed public MP4 derived from a classified-network upload, and the release-level source warning says many responsive materials lack a substantiated chain of custody. The public record does not provide the original file hash, original sensor metadata, platform identity, precise recording time, line of sight, range, altitude, independent tracks, air-traffic logs, weather correlation, or original witness/operator notes on this page. Visible contrast regions are present in sampled public frames, especially in the late-window sequence, but their source, cause, distance, scale, and event significance remain unresolved from this asset alone. 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/1007791
• DVIDS direct media asset: https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111720775/DOD_111720775.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 134, DOW-UAP-PR074, "[CALLSIGN] (Mission)HD_20220613", release date 5/22/26, agency Department of War, kind VID.