Middle East: CENTCOM infrared sensor tracks intermittent contrast for nearly five minutes
In 2020 an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in the U.S. Central Command area recorded four minutes and 53 seconds of an area of contrast that intermittently faded against the background; CENTCOM submitted the footage to AARO without any oral or written description.
Background
According to the official description, the United States Central Command submitted a report consisting of 4 minutes 53 seconds of infrared video from a U.S. military platform in 2020; the reporter provided no oral or written description. The video description notes an area of contrast entering from the bottom left at 00:00-00:12 and being tracked in the lower left quadrant, intermittently losing distinctiveness and seeming to disappear and reappear between 00:13 and 00:40, a zoom at 00:41, an area of contrast exiting at the top between 00:42 and 00:52, erratic panning with a fixed-position contrast from 00:53 to 02:09, and two changes of imaging modality after which the contrast remains in a relatively fixed position until 04:53. Platform, sensor, date and location are not disclosed; the WAR.gov index places the case in the Arabian Gulf. AARO lists the report as unresolved and states that the description is not an analytical judgment. The details are taken from the records released by the U.S. Department of War (record code DOW-UAP-PR42) and do not represent an independent determination by From Beyond Space.