It looks like a soccer ball with three protrusions. The person who reported the footage offered no description of what they saw.
A military sensor captured a soccer-ball-shaped object with three protrusions. The person who reported it offered no description, and the record does not explain what appears in the footage.
A 9.87-second 1920x1080 H.264 infrared sensor video clip released by the U.S. Department of War as 'DOW-UAP-PR46, Unresolved UAP Report, INDOPACOM, 2024'. The footage was captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2024 and submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). All HUD telemetry banners are blacked-out redactions; only a center crosshair/reticle with corner FOV brackets and a compass 'N' marker remain visible. The sensor stays locked on a small, persistent dark contrast feature near frame center that DVIDS describes as a football-shaped body with three radial projections. The reporter provided no oral or written description.
INDOPACOM-submitted UAP report consisting of nine seconds of infrared video from a U.S. military platform. The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation. Across the clip the sensor remains tightly framed on a small, slowly morphing dark contrast feature held near the center of the field of view.
East China Sea
U.S. military platform (unspecified)
aircraft
infrared sensor
sensor
Top-center HUD banner blacked out across all keyframes (likely platform / sensor / time-stamp telemetry).
Likely reason: operational security / classified sensor metadata
Two black boxes top-right of frame (HUD readouts redacted).
Likely reason: operational security / classified telemetry
Black box top-left of frame (HUD readout redacted).
Likely reason: operational security / classified telemetry
Black box at left-center edge (HUD readout / sensor mode indicator redacted).
Likely reason: operational security / classified telemetry
Black boxes at bottom-right and bottom-left of frame (HUD readouts redacted).
Likely reason: operational security / classified telemetry
Audio track is present in the file but contributes no narration per DVIDS ('reporter did not provide any oral or written description').
Likely reason: n/a — no narration was provided
This is video VID record 102, part of the DOW/AARO 'Unresolved UAP Report' series released 8 May 2026 (DOW-UAP-PR46). Group with the other PR-series INDOPACOM IR videos (slugs 100, 101, 103, 104, 105). All HUD telemetry is redacted in identical layout across these clips, suggesting a common release-time scrub pipeline. Object morphology (football body + three radial projections) is the distinguishing detail per DVIDS and is the primary cross-corpus tag.
A soccer-ball-shaped object with three protrusions: one upward and two downward.
No. The record does not identify it or offer an explanation.
It was released as part of a public record, but the record does not explain why.
A sensor that detects heat differences focuses on an area of the East China Sea. The video shows a soccer-ball-shaped object with three protrusions. After nine seconds, the footage ends.
The video was included in a report submitted by a U.S. military body to a government office that handles reports of anomalous phenomena. It was released as part of a public record, but the record does not explain why. It also leaves out the detail we would most like to know: what the person who reported the video thought they saw.
According to the video’s description, the sensor focused on an area that looked different from its surroundings. The central shape resembled a soccer ball, with three protrusions extending from it: one upward and two downward.
The two lower protrusions were angled 45 degrees from the central body. That is nearly all the official description says about the shape’s appearance. It gives no information about its size, its distance from the military aircraft, or whether it was moving.
The video was recorded in 2024 by a sensor mounted on a U.S. military aircraft. The description does not say what happened before the sensor focused on the area or what happened afterward. It simply describes what appears in the nine seconds of footage.
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command submitted the report to an office that handles reports of anomalous phenomena. The person who submitted it provided no oral or written description. The record offers no further information about that person or the circumstances in which the video was recorded.
The result is an odd gap: the visual description is fairly detailed, but there is no witness account of what the observer thought they saw. The description even specifies the directions of the protrusions, yet offers no clue to the shape’s origin. The video itself is too short to fill in what’s missing.
It is not known what appears in the video or what produced the shape. The record offers no conventional explanation, nor does it explain why the video was released to the public. The official description makes clear that it does not determine the nature or credibility of the incident.
Nine seconds of footage, and three unexplained protrusions.