In military footage from Greece, a spot moves from the sea toward land. As the background changes, the camera can no longer make it out.
A military sensor tracked a small spot moving over the sea in Greece toward land. When the background changed, the spot was no longer visible.
DVIDS-hosted infrared full-motion video clip (DOW-UAP-PR35 / Unresolved UAP Report, Greece, October 2023) released alongside the DoW-UAP-D35 mission report. 24.5 seconds of grayscale IR sensor footage at 10 fps (800x444, ~786 kbps) from a U.S. military ISR platform. Per the paired MISREP (slug 051), this is the AFSOC ISR sortie out of LGLR (Larissa AB, Greece) flown 28-29 Oct 2023, with the UAP event occurring at 0811Z on 29 Oct 2023 as the aircraft was returning to base. The clip opens with the sensor narrowing FOV onto a faint area of contrast over open water, tracks the contrast as it traverses the FOV, and ends with the FOV transitioning from predominantly water to land/coastline at which point the contrast becomes indistinguishable from the now-textured background. The MISREP describes the object as a small circular UAP flying just above the surface of the ocean toward land at approximately 30 MPH — markedly slower than the ~80 MPH 90-degree-turning object filmed the previous day in the sister D33 sortie (slug 090).
Infrared FMV from a U.S. military ISR platform tracks a faint area of contrast over open water for roughly 17 seconds before the field-of-view transitions from sea surface to a rugged coastline, at which point the area of contrast becomes indistinguishable from the land background. Per the paired MISREP 9337873 (DoW-UAP-D35), the object was reported as 'seemingly circular, too small to make out details,' flying 'just above the surface of the ocean water' and proceeding 'straight above the ocean towards lands' at an estimated 30 MPH before being lost from the aircraft's feed at 0811Z.
Greece
Larissa Air Base (LGLR), Greece
Aegean Sea / Greek coastline (per paired MISREP), Greece
33rd Special Operations Squadron (33 SOS)
Air Force
27th Special Operations Wing (27 SOW)
Air Force
U.S. military ISR platform (specific MDS/tail redacted; munitions/sensor fit in paired MISREP consistent with MQ-9 Reaper)
aircraft
Infrared (IR) full-motion video sensor (AN/DAS-4 targeting pod per paired MISREP)
sensor
DVIDS title labels this video DOW-UAP-PR35 (the unresolved UAP report) while the corpus slug references DoW-UAP-D35 (the accompanying mission report PDF, slug 051). Same incident, two document IDs. Clip is short (24.5 s), low-resolution (800x444) and low-framerate (10 fps) compared to the D33 sister video (177 s, 1080p, 30 fps, slug 090) — likely an excerpted/scrubbed segment rather than full sortie tape. The keyframes show a thermal-inverted 'white-hot' style IR view with bright cumulus-like cloud structures, dark water, and four heavy black HUD-area redactions (top-center, upper-right, mid-left, lower-right) consistent in size/position with those on slug 090. The terminal frame (21.0 s) shows a textured land mass entering frame from upper-right, consistent with the DVIDS description of the contrast becoming indistinguishable as the background transitions to land. Pair with slug 051 (paired PDF MISREP) and slug 090 (sister D33 video, previous day).
A prominent spot moving against the sea. When the background changes to land, it can no longer be made out.
No. The report and the video do not explain why it became invisible in the image.
In military footage from Greece, a small spot appears against the sea. The sensor zooms in, then tracks it as it moves toward land.
The spot doesn’t vanish suddenly in the middle of the water. It becomes invisible just as the background shifts from sea to land. The video captures that moment but doesn’t show what happened to the spot afterward.
The footage was recorded in 2023 with an infrared sensor, which displays heat rather than ordinary colors. The sensor was mounted on a U.S. military aircraft. At the start of the video, it narrows its field of view, much like a camera zooming in, and focuses on a prominent area near the center of the screen.
The mission report described the object as small and round, moving close to the sea’s surface toward land. That describes what appears in the footage; it doesn’t identify the spot. The video itself shows an area that stands out against the background.
The sensor follows the area as it moves over the sea. It remains visible in the image for several seconds. Then the landscape changes: most of the background is land rather than water. At that point, the area is no longer distinguishable.
U.S. Central Command submitted the report, which included the video and a description of the mission. The footage shows a clear sequence: the sensor zooms in, tracks a spot over the sea, then loses it as the background changes. The video never shows the spot leaving the frame or continuing over land.
It’s unknown what the spot was or why it became invisible when the background changed to land. The report offers no conventional explanation, and the footage doesn’t establish whether the spot itself changed or simply became harder to distinguish in the image.
The sensor continues to track an area visible over the sea. Then, as the background shifts to land, the spot disappears into the image.