PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-PR36, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, May 2020

  PR36 Release Pairing

DOW-UAP-PR36 is a Department of War video record released in PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The DVIDS entry identifies it as video ID 1006083, associated with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and describes a United States Central Command submission to AARO containing two minutes and 17 seconds of infrared footage from a U.S. military platform in 2020.¹²

The release catalog lists the video row with a Middle East incident location and no specific incident date, but pairs it with DoW-UAP-D38, a Range Fouler Debrief whose release metadata identifies a May 14, 2020 Persian Gulf incident. That pairing gives PR36 its more specific written-report context while leaving the public video entry cataloged more broadly.¹³

  Infrared Track Sequence

The official video description says an area of contrast briefly enters the sensor field of view from the left side at 00:05. From 00:06 to 00:18, the sensor pans away from the initial subject matter while cycling contrast settings and zoom levels; at 00:19, the contrast re-enters from near the center of the top edge of the display.²

From 00:20 to 01:15, the described area of contrast remains generally within the sensor field of view. The sensor narrows its field of view at 01:16 and again at 01:56, a blue reticle briefly appears at 02:10 without acquiring a lock, and the sensor loses track at 02:15 to 02:17 after switching to a different modality.²⁴

DVIDS presents that sequence as descriptive viewing information, not as an analytical judgment or investigative conclusion about the event's validity, nature, or significance.²

  D38 Debrief Details

The paired DOW-UAP-D38 PDF is a one-page USCENTCOM Range Fouler Debrief Form declassified by Maj. Gen. Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, and approved for release to AARO on January 26, 2026.³ The form records a 05/14/20 night ISR tasking, a 20:40Z detection time, one contact, an intermittent stable trackfile, a moving contact, and a 20,000-foot contact altitude.³

In the narrative field, the reporting crew described a solid white object entering the sensor field of view during black-hot ISR imagery, being temporarily lost and reacquired, appearing to make erratic movements above water, and being followed at 4x zoom before the crew lost it due to poor track placement.³

  Two Views Of One Report

PR36 matters because the video record and the D38 debrief preserve two different views of the same unresolved report. The DVIDS record supplies the public motion-imagery timeline: sensor panning, zoom changes, a non-locking reticle, and final loss of track. The paired form supplies the operational context that the clip alone does not carry: date, mission type, one-contact count, track status, altitude field, and the crew's narrative description.²³⁴

Taken together, the sources document a reported ISR sensor encounter over or near Persian Gulf water without resolving the object's identity. The strongest public claim is narrow but useful: USCENTCOM forwarded a UAP report to AARO, and Release 01 published both the infrared media record and the paired range-fouler paperwork with cautionary language about interpretation.¹²³

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. dvidshub.net ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

3. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

4. d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net ↩ ↩²