PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-PR41, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020

  PR41 Arabian Gulf Video

DOW-UAP-PR41 is a Department of War video release published through the May 8, 2026 PURSUE Release 01 collection and DVIDS record 1006094.¹² The DVIDS title identifies the record as an unresolved UAP report from the Middle East in 2020, while the release metadata describes the video title and incident location as Arabian Gulf.¹²

  Infrared Tracking Sequence

The record contains one minute and 34 seconds of infrared footage from a U.S. military platform, submitted by United States Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.² The direct MP4 in the DVIDS metadata is a 1920-by-1080 video file, and the DVIDS record lists the runtime as 94 seconds.²³

The official description says an area of contrast enters the sensor field of view at 00:01 from the bottom third of the left side of the screen.² From 00:02 through 01:34, the sensor pans left to right while tracking that area and keeping it generally centered within the frame.² The record states that the reporter did not provide an oral or written description of the observation.²

  PR41 Lacks Mission Report

The PR41 media row does not list a paired PDF in the release metadata, so there is no accompanying mission report that should be treated as the narrative source for this specific video.¹

  Provenance Without a Witness Account

PR41 is important because it preserves a full-motion infrared sensor sequence while also showing the limits of the public record: the official video description identifies the sensor behavior and the visible area of contrast, but it does not provide a witness narrative, event date, platform details, or an analytic conclusion.¹² The release therefore functions as provenance for a specific AARO-submitted media item rather than as a standalone explanation of what the sensor tracked.²

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  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. dvidshub.net ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

3. d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net ↩