The points stayed centered in the frame, but no one described what they saw.
A military sensor recorded two points in North America that appeared distinct from the background and tracked them for nearly two minutes. Changes in zoom made them appear to grow and shrink, but the report does not explain what they were.
DOW-UAP-PR49 is a 1 minute 49 second monochrome infrared sensor video submitted by the Department of the Army to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The footage, captured in 2026 from an IR sensor aboard an unspecified U.S. military platform somewhere in North America, shows two small bright contrast points (an apparent close-paired object or pair of objects) being tracked against a near-uniformly dark background. The reporter provided no oral or written description of the observation. Throughout the clip the sensor pans, zooms in/out, rapidly cycles field-of-view, and intermittently switches contrast settings while keeping the two areas of contrast roughly centered.
An infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform recorded approximately 1 minute 49 seconds of footage of two closely spaced bright (warm) contrast points against a dark background. The sensor operator tracked the objects, panning right-to-left, zooming in and out, briefly cycling rapidly between zoom levels (~01:04-01:08), and intermittently toggling contrast/polarity settings. No oral or written description of what was being observed was provided by the reporter.
U.S. military platform (unspecified)
aircraft
infrared sensor (unspecified)
sensor
Multiple HUD/banner regions on the sensor display are blacked out with solid rectangles: top-center (likely platform/sensor identifier or classification banner), upper-left and middle-left (likely altitude/heading/range readouts), upper-right and middle-right (likely sensor mode/zoom/FOV indicators), and lower-left and lower-right corners (likely lat/lon, time, or aircraft data). The compass 'N' indicator and the central crosshair/reticle are left visible.
Likely reason: Removal of platform-, sensor-, location-, and time-identifying telemetry prior to public release.
Part of the Department of War 2026 'DOW-UAP-PR##' AARO submission series. Incident location coded as 'North America' in the manifest with N/A incident date; only year (2026) is given in the description. All informative HUD telemetry is redacted, so platform type, location, altitude, time-of-day, sensor model, and FOV cannot be determined from the imagery itself. The 'two areas of contrast' phrasing in the official description is notable: it carefully avoids characterizing them as objects.
A sensor tracks two points that appear different from the background and changes the zoom.
No. The report does not identify them or offer an explanation.
The record gives North America and the year 2026, but no exact date.
In a video recorded in North America, a military sensor initially tracks one area. A few seconds later, it turns left toward two points that appear distinct from the background.
The sensor tracks them for nearly two minutes, changing the zoom along the way. But the person who reported the sighting did not describe what they saw. The video clearly shows the sensor following the points, yet leaves the central question unanswered.
The U.S. military submitted the report in 2026. The video was recorded with an infrared sensor, which detects heat, aboard a U.S. military craft. The record describes what the sensor does in the image, not what the points were.
At the start of the video, the sensor tracks a particular area. Then it stops focusing there, moves from right to left, and begins tracking two points. The official description calls them areas of contrast against their surroundings. In other words, they appear distinct from the background.
To get a closer look, the sensor zooms in on the points. It then zooms out, making it look as though the sensor has moved farther away. Throughout these changes, the points generally remain centered in the frame.
In a brief segment, the zoom shifts rapidly through different levels. The points appear to grow and shrink, though the video offers no explanation for what it shows. The sensor continues tracking them afterward, at times also changing the image’s contrast.
It is not known what the two points were, why they appeared different from the background, or what happened. The report offers no conventional explanation. It also gives neither the exact date of the event nor the type of military craft from which the video was recorded.
The two points remain centered in the frame. The video ends, leaving the question of what the sensor saw unanswered.