A blob moves across an image from a military sensor, but the report doesn’t explain what it shows.
Footage from a military sensor shows a blob moving across the screen and disappearing. The report does not identify it or explain why it was submitted.
DOW-UAP-PR37: a 9.8-second declassified infrared-sensor clip submitted by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as an unresolved UAP report from 2020, with the manifest placing the incident in the Arabian Gulf. The reporter provided no oral or written description; AARO's published per-second narrative states that between 00:06 and 00:08 an 'area of contrast' enters the sensor FOV from the bottom-left quarter, follows a generally linear path from the bottom of the screen to the top, and exits via the top-left quarter. Across all nine sampled keyframes the dominant subject is in fact NOT the UAP but a small surface vessel (visible as a dark, wedge-shaped boat with a wake trailing aft, centered just below frame center on a monochrome IR view of the open sea); the sensor tracks this boat for the entire clip. The advertised UAP appears only fleetingly: a faint small bright pinpoint is visible in the lower-left quadrant of frame_07 (~6.9 s), consistent with the DVIDS-stated 00:06-00:08 transit window. HUD persists across every frame as a center crosshair reticle, four corner tracking-gate brackets, a blue 'N' (north) indicator, and heavy solid-black redaction blocks over the top-center classification/ID banner, the four corner telemetry data fields, and the left and right sidebar telemetry columns.
CENTCOM-submitted unresolved UAP report (DOW-UAP-PR37) consisting of nine seconds of infrared-sensor footage from a U.S. military platform. DVIDS verbatim narrative: 00:06-00:08 an area of contrast enters the sensor field-of-view from the bottom left quarter of the screen, follows a generally linear path from the bottom of the screen to the top, and exits from the top left quarter. The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation. The released video as sampled in keyframes shows the IR sensor pointed at and tracking a small surface vessel in open water for the duration of the clip; the UAP itself is the brief transiting 'area of contrast' that crosses the FOV from bottom-left to top-left.
Arabian Gulf, Middle East
Middle East
Unspecified U.S. military platform with infrared sensor
sensor
Unidentified small surface vessel (boat) being tracked by the sensor
ship
Heavy solid-black bar across the top-center of the sensor frame in every keyframe, masking what would conventionally be a classification banner / platform-system identification line at the top of a U.S. military FLIR/IR sensor display.
Likely reason: Classification / source-and-method protection (likely sensor type, platform tail / unit identifier, and classification caveat).
Solid-black rectangular blocks covering the four corner data fields and the left and right sidebar telemetry columns (where typical sensor displays show coordinates, slant range, sensor azimuth/elevation, time, FOV, mode, laser status, etc.).
Likely reason: Redaction of geocoordinates, time-of-day, sensor mode/range, and platform-identifying telemetry; consistent with AARO release pattern for CENTCOM IR clips.
Very short clip (9.8 s) so keyframes were sampled at ~1 s spacing. Keyframes 1-6 (1.0 s through 5.9 s) all show the same scene: IR view of a small surface vessel underway, sensor tracking the boat with crosshair on or just ahead of it; no anomalous object visible. Keyframe 7 (6.9 s) is where the DVIDS-described transit begins and a faint bright pinpoint is barely visible in the lower-left quadrant. Keyframes 8-9 (7.8 s, 8.8 s) return to the boat-only scene with no obvious object remaining in frame. Pair this record with 094-dvids-1006088 (PR38) and 098-dvids-1006097 (PR42) when aggregating the AARO unresolved-case timeline; all share the same redaction template and submission language. The presence of a tracked boat in the FOV is a notable distinguishing feature versus the more typical 'open sky' CENTCOM IR clips in this series.
A blob enters in the lower-left portion of the frame, moves upward, and exits in the upper-left portion.
No. The record does not identify it or explain what led to the report.
Over the Arabian Gulf in the Middle East, a blob enters the frame of a military sensor. It appears in the lower-left corner, moves upward, and exits in the upper-left corner.
The clip is brief, and the movement is clear. But no one explains what they saw, and the report itself does not identify the blob. The video was submitted to authorities as documentation of an unidentified phenomenon, but the record does not say why it was submitted or what prompted someone who watched it to report it.
The video was recorded in 2020 with an infrared sensor, a device that detects heat invisible to the naked eye and displays it as an image. The sensor was mounted on a U.S. military aircraft. The video lasts nine seconds, and the blob appears for only a brief portion of it.
The official description says the blob entered from the lower-left part of the image. It moved generally upward, then exited through the upper-left part. The record describes it as an area that looked different from its surroundings. It offers no clear shape, color, or other details that might help explain what is visible.
The person who submitted the report provided no explanation, either in writing or verbally. The record therefore contains no witness account describing what they thought they saw or what was happening around the time of the recording. It includes the video and a description of the movement, but no details linking the blob to anything specific.
That leaves a simple gap: We know where the blob appeared and which way it moved, but not what it was. The material also gives no reason for the report. It notes that the video was submitted without saying what led to the submission.
The blob has not been identified, and the record offers no conventional explanation for it. Parts of the record have been redacted, and the description alone does not establish what happened or what the movement meant.
In a brief military video, a blob passes from one side of the frame to the other. Then the screen is left without an explanation for what crossed it.