The blob appeared on a specialized sensor, but not in the standard image. When the operator switched back, it was gone.
A sensor aboard a military aircraft over Greece displayed a blob that vanished from the standard image. When the operator returned to the first sensor, they couldn’t find it again.
DVIDS-hosted 66-second declassified U.S. Central Command sensor video designated DOW-UAP-PR28 ('Unresolved UAP Report, Greece, January 2024'). Submitted to AARO, the footage was captured aboard a U.S. military platform and shows a small bright point-source against sky/cloud backgrounds, observed via electro-optical and short-wave infrared (SWIR) modalities. The DVIDS description states the object was reported as 'diamond-shaped', moving at approximately 434 knots, and only detectable on SWIR; the operator briefly switches to visible spectrum and SWIR Black-Hot at the end of the clip but does not reacquire the target. Throughout the released keyframes, all HUD readouts (top banner, side rails, classification/timing fields, lower data block) are obscured with solid black redaction boxes, leaving only the targeting reticle and a 'N' (north) heading indicator visible.
U.S. military platform captured 1 minute 5 seconds of multi-modal sensor footage of an anomalous point-source target. Per the DVIDS description, the clip opens with a split-screen (right: EO, left: SWIR); at 00:04 an area of contrast becomes distinguishable in the EO frame; at 00:10 the display switches to a full-screen SWIR feed; the area of contrast remains roughly centered in the field-of-view through 00:55 and visually resembles 'an inverted teardrop with a vertically linear trailing mass suspended below'; at 00:56 the operator switches to visible spectrum and loses the subject against the background; from 00:57 to 01:05 the operator switches to SWIR (Black-Hot) but does not reacquire the target.
Greece
U.S. military platform (unspecified)
aircraft
Electro-optical (EO) sensor
sensor
Short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensor
sensor
Top-of-screen HUD banner (likely classification marking and sensor/timecode fields) in every keyframe
Likely reason: Classification / operational-security redaction of sensor metadata and platform identifiers
Upper-right corner data block (likely sensor mode / FOV / range readout)
Likely reason: Operational-security redaction
Left-edge vertical rail readouts (likely altitude / depression / scale)
Likely reason: Operational-security redaction
Lower-right corner data block (likely time / coordinates / sensor status)
Likely reason: Operational-security redaction
Small data field directly below the targeting reticle in every full-screen SWIR keyframe
Likely reason: Likely range / slant range or laser-designator readout redaction
Lower-left corner small data block
Likely reason: Operational-security redaction
Pairing note: the DVIDS public description for PR28 explicitly cites 'DoW-UAP-D7' as the accompanying mission report, but D7 in this corpus is 'Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020' (slug 074). The Greece, January 2024 mission report is DOW-UAP-D25 (slug 043). Aggregator should treat 043 as the most likely true pairing and flag this as a probable DVIDS-side citation error. The 434-knot speed and 'diamond-shaped' morphology come from the cited mission report, NOT from the video itself; the released keyframes show only a small bright SWIR point-source.
A blob visible in an image from a short-wave infrared sensor. By the end of the video, it looks like an upside-down teardrop with an elongated shape beneath it.
No. The record does not identify it or offer an ordinary explanation.
In footage from a U.S. military aircraft over Greece, a blob becomes visible near the center of the screen. The video runs for about a minute, with two images side by side. The blob is visible, but its source is unclear.
The image changes, but the blob stays near the center. By the end, it looks like an upside-down teardrop with an elongated shape beneath it. When the operator switches to the standard image, the blob disappears. Switching back to the first sensor doesn’t bring it back.
At the start of the video, two images appear side by side. The one on the right is a standard image; the one on the left is based on light we can’t see, known as short-wave infrared. After about 10 seconds, the display switches to the specialized image alone, focusing on the area where the blob appeared.
According to the video’s description, the blob was visible only in the image from the specialized sensor. A sensor detects information and displays it. In this case, it produced an image different from the standard one. The blob generally stayed near the center of the frame, even as the operator focused on it.
A separate mission report described the object as diamond-shaped and gave its speed as about 800 kilometers per hour. That speed does not come from a measurement shown in the video; it appears in the accompanying report. The video’s description, by contrast, calls the shape seen near the end an upside-down teardrop with an elongated form beneath it.
That is how the pilot described what appeared in the footage in the report they filed. The two descriptions are not the same: one calls it a diamond, while the other describes its appearance in the video’s final image. The blob also does not appear in the standard image. When the operator returns to the specialized sensor, it is gone. There is nothing left to track on the screen.
It is not known what the blob was or why it did not appear in the standard image. The record offers no ordinary explanation for its appearance or disappearance.
The sensor switches back to the specialized image. This time, the blob is gone.