DOW-UAP-PR094, "[CALLSIGN] (Mission) - HD 2020-02-13"

Investigation reading

This Release 02 item is an official Department of War / AARO video record from manifest row 154, published in the 5/22/26 WAR.GOV/PURSUE release and mirrored through DVIDS video ID 1007722. The uploader-defined title is preserved as source/catalog language: "[CALLSIGN] (Mission) - HD 2020-02-13". The redacted callsign and generic Mission title field are not treated here as independent Open Sky findings about platform identity, event significance, or the nature of the visible area of contrast.

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 electro-optical and infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the United States Central Command area of responsibility in 2020, and says a user uploaded the video to a classified network in February 2020.

The source-provided video description lists a duration of 00:04:59. It labels 00:00 to 01:46 as No content; describes an area of contrast entering the upper-right frame and leaving the field of view on the left between 01:47 and 01:51; says the sensor pans to track the area of contrast from 01:52 to 02:10; describes zoom-out and zoom-in windows from 02:11 to 02:28; describes repeated zoom changes from 02:29 to 04:38; and describes a late modality change from 04:40 to 04:53 before a final 04:54 to 04:59 zoom sequence where the area of contrast is briefly visible in the upper-left screen. The same source text is explicitly informational only and should not be read as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about the described event's validity, nature, or significance.

The DVIDS page resolves to a canonical page for video 1007722 and lists date taken 02.13.2020, date posted 05.22.2026 07:30, category B-Roll, video ID 1007722, VIRIN 200214-D-D0360-2195, filename DOD_111719799, length 00:04:59, and location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION). The manifest gives incident location CENTCOM, while DVIDS gives (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION). Those are provenance fields to preserve, not enough by themselves to derive coordinates, platform position, or line of sight.

What the released item appears to contain

The downloaded direct MP4 is a 1280×720 sensor-display clip with a dark blue/teal field, fixed black rectangular masks or display blocks near the frame edges and upper field, a central orange reticle-like marker, additional orange reference marks, and a thin green line along the bottom of the image. The public clip contains a visible sensor-display presentation even during the source-labeled No content interval; in this context, No content is best treated as source wording for no described UAP-relevant action in that interval, not as a blank or missing video segment.

Sampled frames around the source-described 01:47 to 02:30 event window show mostly stable low-contrast teal imagery with the fixed masks and orange overlays. A faint, diffuse lower-central tonal patch or area of contrast is visible in some sampled frames, but it is not sharply bounded. The contact sheets alone do not establish object identity, size, speed, altitude, range, cause, or whether the faint contrast is physical scene content rather than sensor texture, compression, display processing, background variation, or a low-contrast feature in the scene.

The source timeline describes panning, zoom-out, zoom-in, and repeated zoom changes. The still-frame contact sheets are useful for review, but they do not reliably reproduce the continuous-motion context needed to separate sensor motion, platform motion, stabilization, zoom, display overlays, redaction masks, and scene/background texture. The safest public wording is that the released video contains a low-contrast sensor-display sequence with source-described area-of-contrast windows; it does not support an Open Sky finding about identity or performance from this asset alone.

The late 04:35 to 04:59 samples remain dominated by the same dark teal field, fixed masks, and orange overlay marks. The area of contrast remains faint and diffuse. The source says a modality change causes the area to lose distinctiveness and then return to electro-optical collection; the contact sheet review supports a caution that visibility is low and presentation-dependent, but not a conclusion about the feature's nature.

The MP4 includes an AAC stereo audio stream, but a full decoded audio check returned zero signal in this source review (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, identity, count, speed, range, altitude, platform, or event significance.

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: 35576526, last-modified: Fri, 22 May 2026 11:30:35 GMT, and ETag "999fa74ffcbb6ec56a5dc8a02acd0620-5". A byte-range probe returned 206 with content-range: bytes 0-15/35576526; the first 16 bytes were MP4/M4V header bytes 0000001c667479704d34562000000001.

The Release 02 remote video-ZIP central directory lists video_2605_DOD_111719799_DOD_111719799.mp4 as 35,570,662 bytes with CRC32 326cd82f, stored uncompressed. That does not match the downloaded direct DVIDS MP4 size or CRC32; the direct object is 5,864 bytes larger than the ZIP central-directory entry. 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.

Autocontrasted center-crop frames were generated only as a qualitative review aid. They can amplify background texture, compression blocks, flat-field residuals, display processing, or sensor noise. They should not be treated as calibrated photometric evidence, and they cannot rule out activity outside the cropped region.

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 1007722. The public DVIDS page resolves to https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007722/dow-uap-pr094-callsign-mission-hd-2020-02-13 and exposes the direct media asset at https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111719799/DOD_111719799.mp4.

The custody posture is intentionally bounded. The public release says many responsive materials lack a substantiated chain of custody. This row says the video was uploaded to a classified network in February 2020 and is likely derived from an electro-optical and infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the CENTCOM area of responsibility in 2020. DVIDS adds a 02.13.2020 date taken, (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) location, VIRIN 200214-D-D0360-2195, and filename DOD_111719799. Those fields are useful public catalog facts, but they do not provide original sensor metadata, platform identity, coordinates, range, altitude, precise time of day, continuous chain-of-custody documentation, or independent corroborating sensor records. This page preserves the official manifest/DVIDS provenance and downloaded-source inspection facts without converting the title, visible contrast, 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

• 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.
• Reconcile date/custody fields: title date 2020-02-13, DVIDS date taken 02.13.2020, VIRIN prefix 200214, source-upload month February 2020, manifest incident date 2020, manifest location CENTCOM, and DVIDS location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION).
• Review the 01:47 to 02:28 sequence in continuous full-resolution playback to separate source-described entry, pan, zoom-out, and zoom-in behavior from sensor/display motion, stabilization, fixed masks, and low-contrast background texture.
• Review the 02:29 to 04:59 sequence frame-by-frame before describing any persistent track or late-window reappearance. The source uses cautious area of contrast language and explicitly says the description is informational only.
• Identify the original sensor type, display polarity, reticle/overlay meaning, masking/redaction behavior, platform position, line of sight, range, precise time, and any companion mission or operator notes.
• Run prosaic context checks before escalation: ordinary aircraft, drones, birds, balloons, debris, maritime traffic, clouds/haze, glint/reflection, atmospheric effects, sensor gain or contrast processing, platform parallax, compression/display artifacts, redaction artifacts, CENTCOM activity on 13 February 2020, weather, satellite/launch/reentry context, and any available military or civilian incident logs.

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 time of day, line of sight, range, altitude, coordinates, independent radar or optical tracks, air/maritime traffic correlation, weather correlation, or original witness/operator notes on this page. The source-described area of contrast remains 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/1007722
• DVIDS canonical video page: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007722/dow-uap-pr094-callsign-mission-hd-2020-02-13
• DVIDS direct media asset: https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111719799/DOD_111719799.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 154, DOW-UAP-PR094, "[CALLSIGN] (Mission) - HD 2020-02-13", release date 5/22/26, agency Department of War, kind VID.