PURSUE and DVIDS Trail
DOW-UAP-PR40 is a Department of War video record released through PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The release catalog identifies it as a redacted video entry from the Department of War, gives the incident location as the Arabian Gulf, and lists no specific incident date beyond the 2020 title.1
DVIDS carries the same asset as video ID 1006093, a courtesy B-roll item from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Its page says United States Central Command submitted the report to AARO and describes the public file as one minute and three seconds of infrared-sensor video from a U.S. military platform in 2020.2
Annotated Thermal Signature
The official description says an area of contrast brightens during the first nine seconds of the sensor view. From 00:10 to 00:14, playback pauses while a white line circles the area of interest and labels it "U/I SMALL THERMAL SIGNATURE." The remaining segment, from 00:15 to 01:03, resumes tracking the contrast area while the sensor pans, keeps it generally in the top third of the display, and cycles through contrast and zoom settings.23
That annotation is part of the submitted media, not a later AARO edit. DVIDS states that the original reporter digitally altered the imagery by pausing playback and adding the white circle and label at 00:10, and that AARO presented the material as received. The DVIDS description also warns that its viewing notes are informational, not an analytical judgment or final determination about the event.2
No Paired Report Listed
The PR40 catalog entry does not name a paired DOW PDF, paired video, or separate public PDF/image link. That leaves the DVIDS page and direct MP4 as the public source package for this specific media record.123
The surrounding PURSUE batch contains separate DOW mission reports titled for Arabian Gulf 2020, including D3 through D7, but those document entries also lack public video-pairing fields.1 Their redacted GENTEXT/UAP passages show the type of operational context that a paired MISREP can provide: Air Force and AFCENT reporting context, sensor-view descriptions, reported speeds, direction changes, altitude language, and object descriptions. The release metadata does not attach any of those PDFs to PR40, so they are useful as nearby document context, not as evidence that fills gaps in this clip.145678
A Narrow USCENTCOM Clip
PR40 matters because it preserves a military-origin UAP media item with unusually visible handling history. The viewer sees not only the infrared sequence, but also the reporter-added pause, circle, and label that shaped how the area of contrast was presented before AARO received it.23
Its evidentiary value is therefore narrow but important. The record supports the statement that USCENTCOM submitted a one-minute infrared clip to AARO and that AARO released it with explicit caution about interpretation. It does not identify the object, supply the platform, provide a precise event date, or attach the operational report that would normally help outside readers test the observation against mission conditions.12