PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-PR26, Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023

  PR26 and D23 Pairing

The Department of War's May 8, 2026 PURSUE Release 01 identifies DOW-UAP-PR26 as a video release titled DOW-UAP-PR26, Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023, with redactions marked, an incident location of United Arab Emirates, and no separate incident date listed in the catalog row.¹ The same row pairs the video with DoW-UAP-D23, a mission report for United Arab Emirates, October 2023.¹²

The DVIDS record is video ID 1006063, categorized as B-roll, credited as Courtesy, associated with the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and published on May 7, 2026. Its title and location metadata match the PR26 United Arab Emirates label, but its public description describes a still image from 2022 and names DoW-UAP-D12 rather than D23.³⁴ That conflict should be treated as an unresolved source-mapping issue, not as a clean PR26/D23 media description.

  DVIDS Description Mismatch

The media file attached to DVIDS is a 43-second MP4, but the text description attached to that DVIDS page is not a 43-second video timeline. It describes an encircled still image and says the original reporter digitally added a red line around an area of interest before submitting the imagery to AARO.³⁴

The safest reading is therefore narrow: PR26 has a DVIDS media package and a PURSUE row pairing it to D23, but the DVIDS description appears to carry PR20/D12 still-image language. The public record does not resolve whether the text, video title, or pairing field is the authoritative mapping.¹²³

  Al Dhafra MISREP Details

DOW-UAP-D23 is a USCENTCOM MISREP declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on September 12, 2025, with FOUO and Privacy Act markings.² The report's internal timeline uses October 24, 2023 Zulu timestamps, places the launch and recovery at Al Dhafra Air Base, OMAM, and identifies the operation as Operation Spartan Shield.²

The MISREP records on-station time from 0155Z to 1912Z, imagery-intelligence support for NAVCENT, and a professional guard call from Iranian Air Defense at 0145Z. It then records two UAP observations: one at 0241Z and one at 0322Z.²

Both UAP entries mark the observer assessment as benign, the physical state as solid, no observed maneuverability, no observer engagement, no effects on persons, no intelligent control, and unknown anomalous characteristics. The first entry lists an estimated kinetic velocity of 320 mph and a cold thermal signature; the second lists an estimated kinetic velocity of 440 mph and unknown signatures.²

  Unresolved Source Mapping

PR26 matters because it exposes a release-mapping problem inside an otherwise citable media package. The PURSUE row ties the item to D23, while the DVIDS description names D12 and describes PR20-style still imagery.¹²³

That conflict is useful to state plainly. The record can support a citation to the PR26 row, the D23 mission report, the DVIDS media page, and the MP4 asset, but it should not be used as if those sources provide one harmonized account of a single 43-second observation.¹²³⁴

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  References

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3. dvidshub.net ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

4. d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net ↩ ↩² ↩³