PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-PR27, Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023

  PR27 Release Context

PURSUE Release 01 identifies DOW-UAP-PR27 as a Department of War video record released on May 8, 2026, with a listed incident location of United Arab Emirates, no incident date in the release metadata, DVIDS video ID 1006067, and a pairing to DoW-UAP-D23.¹ The DVIDS entry is titled DOW-UAP-PR27, Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023, was published on May 7, 2026, and is associated with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.²

The record includes a direct MP4 file, embedded below.³

  Infrared Footage Timeline

The official video description says U.S. Central Command submitted a UAP report to AARO consisting of four minutes and 57 seconds of infrared sensor footage from a U.S. military platform in 2023.² In the time-coded description, the first one minute and 55 seconds contain no content; at 01:56 an area of contrast becomes visible near the center of the right side of the display, the sensor pans toward it at 02:04, and the field of view narrows at 02:14.²

From 02:15 to 03:26, the described area of contrast remains generally centered in the sensor field of view.² From 03:27 through the end of the 04:57 recording, sensor motion makes the area of contrast move erratically across the display, with the sensor system repeatedly losing and reacquiring it near the center of the image.² The release description cautions that this description is informational and should not be read as an analytical judgment or conclusion about the event's nature or significance.²

  October 24 Mission Report

The paired DoW-UAP-D23 document is a USCENTCOM Military Mission Report declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on September 12, 2025.⁴ The report places the mission under Operation Spartan Shield, identifies the combatant command as USCENTCOM, lists 50 ATKS as the originator, and records an Air Force JSR mission launched from OMAM on October 24, 2023.⁴

The mission report records takeoff at 0015Z, on-station time at 0155Z, off-station time at 1912Z, landing at OMAM at 2058Z, and a total mission time of 20 hours and 43 minutes.⁴ It also records a professional guard call from Iranian Air Defense at 0145Z instructing the aircraft to maintain distance from the border, with the aircraft responding that it was a coalition aircraft conducting routine operations in international airspace.⁴

Two UAP entries appear in the D23 mission report, at 0241Z and 0322Z on October 24, 2023.⁴ Both entries mark the observer assessment as benign, the physical state as solid, maneuverability observations as none, observer engagement as no, effects on persons as no, and many technical fields as unknown; the listed estimated kinetic velocities are 320 mph for the first entry and 440 mph for the second.⁴

  From Clip To Case File

PR27 matters because it is not just a standalone media clip: the release ties the public infrared footage to a specific USCENTCOM mission report, a reporting chain into AARO, and a record that preserves timing, mission context, sensor context, redactions, and uncertainty fields.¹²⁴ The pairing is also useful because the public video description focuses on an observed area of contrast, while the D23 form shows how the underlying military report handled the same mission as operational data rather than a finished identification.²⁴

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩²

2. dvidshub.net ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

3. d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net ↩

4. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸