After a minute and a half with no image, four dots appeared in the center.
A military sensor tracked areas that disappeared from view. After more than a minute with no image, four dots appeared, but the video does not identify them.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as AARO, found it in a collection of material.
A sensor tracks areas that look different from the background. After a stretch with no image, four dots appear.
No. The video does not identify them or explain what caused them to appear.
The sensor sweeps back and forth, tracking an area that looks different from the background. It moves closer, and the area disappears off the top of the frame. Then the screen stays blank.
The video offers no resolution to the mystery: the sensor keeps searching for similar areas but cannot identify them. After more than a minute without an image, four dots appear in the center. The video was included in a collection of documents reviewed after members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to material on anomalous phenomena.
At the start of the video, the sensor tracks an area that looks different from the background until it blurs and disappears. Another area appears later, entering from one side of the frame and leaving through the other. The sensor zooms in and out, repeatedly trying to track similar areas.
Eventually, it focuses on one area and follows it upward across the frame. The tracking continues until the area disappears off the top. For about a minute and a half, the video shows nothing.
When the image returns, several small areas are visible in the center. Then four dots appear. The sensor moves to follow them, but the video does not show what they are. It also turns toward another area in the lower-right corner and zooms in.
Near the end of the video, the sensor switches imaging modes and focuses again on an area in the center. It keeps trying to track the area and sharpen the image, but never gets a clear identification. That is all the video shows: tracking, disappearance, reappearance, and another attempt to focus.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as AARO, found the video in a collection of material stored on a restricted-access computer network. The office believes the video was likely captured by a thermal sensor aboard a U.S. military aircraft operating in the Middle East in June 2022. A user uploaded it online that same month.
It is not known what the dots were or what caused them to appear and disappear. The office estimates where the video came from, but notes that many items in the collection lack a complete record of how they came to be there.
Four dots appear in the center of the image. The sensor focuses on them, and the video ends without revealing what it saw.