PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-PR43, Unresolved UAP Report, Africa, 2025

  AFRICOM Video Entry

The Department of War's May 8, 2026 PURSUE Release 01 catalog identifies DOW-UAP-PR43, Unresolved UAP Report, Africa, 2025 as a Department of War video record. The release metadata lists the incident location as Djibouti, leaves the incident date unavailable, gives DVIDS video ID 1006159, and names the DVIDS video title as Unresolved UAP Report, Djibouti, 2025.¹²

DVIDS published the matching public entry on May 8, 2026, under the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, with a direct MP4 rendition preserved for the release.³⁴ The media description says United States Africa Command submitted an unidentified anomalous phenomenon report to AARO based on two seconds of infrared footage from a U.S. military platform in 2025. It also says the reporter did not provide an oral or written description of the observation.²³

  Two-Second Infrared Clip

Although the public MP4 is an 11-second file, the official description says the underlying observation consists of two seconds of footage and that the clip is looped for viewing.³⁴ The described visual content is limited: a faint contrast area crosses the infrared sensor field from left to right and exits through the lower-right portion of the frame.²³

The release language is careful about what that means. The video description is offered for informational context only, not as an investigative conclusion about the object's identity, validity, nature, or significance.²³

  No Reporter Narrative

PR43's release row does not populate the PDF-pairing field, and its video description says no reporter narrative accompanied the observation.²³ The public record for this clip should therefore be read as a media-only AARO submission: DVIDS metadata, a direct MP4, and the Department of War catalog row, without a mission report that can be treated as the written source for this specific event.²³⁴

  Evidence of Reporting

PR43 matters because it is a narrow public record from AFRICOM: a short infrared sensor clip, a DVIDS media entry, and Department of War catalog metadata, but no observer account and no public analytical conclusion.²³

The record is therefore strongest as evidence of government reporting and release handling, not object identification. It documents that AARO received an AFRICOM-reported UAP media submission from 2025 and that the public release preserved both the direct video file and the limits of what the reporter supplied.²³⁴

  References

  References

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