The spots grew harder to make out, then came back into clearer view.
A military sensor video shows four spots blurring and then coming back into clearer view. The video was digitally altered before it was uploaded to a military network, but what was changed and what the spots are remain unknown.
Four bright spots moving across the image, blurring, and later becoming easier to see again.
AARO, a U.S. office that found materials related to the House of Representatives members’ request for records.
Officials have not said what was changed or why. All that is known is that it was digitally altered before being uploaded to a military network.
At the start of the video, four bright spots move from left to right along the bottom of the frame. A military sensor tracks them and zooms in. As the image changes, the spots become increasingly difficult to see.
Near the end, they become easier to make out again. The video runs for about eight minutes but offers no explanation of what it shows. It was reviewed after a U.S. office found it among military materials related to reports of anomalous phenomena.
At the start of the video, the spots move across the lower part of the screen. The image is cropped several times and changes: parts of the sensor display come in and out of view, and the zoom level shifts.
At one point, the sensor zooms in on the four spots. But the closer view does not make them any easier to identify. Later, the video quality deteriorates, and the spots grow increasingly blurred.
Near the end of the video, the image is cropped or zoomed out. The four spots are once again easier to see. The official description says this segment may return to an earlier part of the video.
The video did not come directly from the sensor to the public. In June 2024, a user uploaded it to a military computer network that is not open to the public. The video had been digitally altered before it was uploaded. Officials have not said what was changed or why. When the video was released to the public, the Department of War presented it as it had received it.
Members of the House of Representatives requested access to records that might be related to anomalous phenomena. AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office), the U.S. office that reviewed the request, found relevant materials on a classified network, including this video.
AARO estimates that the video was probably recorded by a heat-detecting sensor aboard a U.S. military aircraft. That suggests what kind of camera it may have come from, but not what it shows.
It is not known what the spots are or what made them look this way. It is also unclear what was changed in the video before it was uploaded, so the official description does not identify what appears in it.
In the end, four spots return to the screen. The image is clearer; what lies behind it remains unknown.