PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-PR39, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020

  PR39 Video Provenance

DOW-UAP-PR39 is a Department of War video entry from PURSUE Release 01, released on May 8, 2026. The release catalog identifies it as a video record from the Department of War, lists the incident date as N/A, places the incident location in the Arabian Gulf, and associates it with DVIDS video ID 1006089.¹²

DVIDS presents the public asset as courtesy B-roll from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, with a 16:9 frame, five-second duration, VIRIN 200102-D-D0360-2155, and an undisclosed-location metadata field. The DVIDS title uses the broader "Middle East, 2020" label, while the release catalog's video title and incident-location fields narrow the public catalog context to the Arabian Gulf.¹²

  Five Seconds of Infrared Footage

The official DVIDS description says United States Central Command submitted a UAP report to AARO consisting of five seconds of infrared-sensor video from a U.S. military platform in 2020. It also states that the original reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation.²

The visible sequence is described from 00:03 to 00:05: a faint area of contrast enters the sensor field of view from the lower half of the right edge, moves right to left across the corner of the frame, and exits near the center of the bottom edge. DVIDS cautions that the description is informational and should not be read as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about the event.²³

  PR39 Lacks Mission Report

The PR39 catalog entry does not list a PDF pairing or a separate War.gov PDF link, so the public record for this item is the DVIDS metadata and the direct MP4 rather than a paired DOW mission report. That absence matters because the video has no accompanying reporter narrative in the PR39 release metadata.¹²³

  Sparse Evidence, Clear Boundaries

PR39 matters because it is a sparse public motion-imagery record: the official materials preserve provenance, routing to AARO, platform and sensor type, duration, DVIDS media identifiers, and a two-second visual timeline, but not a fuller operational report. The strongest public claim is therefore narrow: USCENTCOM submitted a five-second infrared video to AARO, and PURSUE Release 01 published it without an identified paired PDF.¹²³

That narrow record is still useful. It shows how Release 01 handles unresolved UAP media when the public evidence consists mainly of sensor footage and catalog metadata, and it keeps the interpretive boundary visible by separating what the video description says from any conclusion about the object's identity or significance.¹²

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. dvidshub.net ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

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