Evidence brief / IMPORTANT

AARO Releases Three Previously Unresolved UAP Video Records from 2021 and 2023

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has published three Defense Department video records describing unresolved UAP reports from the Gulf of Oman in 2021 and an undisclosed Middle Eastern location in 2023 [1][2][3]. The records include two Gulf of Oman clips, lasting two and 13 seconds, and a separate 51-second infrared recording from a U.S. military platform [1][2][3]. The 2021 footage was not native sensor data: it was a cellular-phone recording of an infrared display aboard an AC-130J gunship, and the source warns that filming the screen could introduce blurring, flickering, reduced resolution, and other fidelity problems [1][3]. The accompanying 2021 intelligence report described the phenomena as approximately four-foot “cold orbs,” but that characterization is a reported description rather than proof of the objects’ identity or origin [1][3]. The 2023 video shows a contrast moving across the sensor’s field of view while the sensor pans to follow it, yet the official description explicitly makes no analytical or factual determination about the event’s validity, nature, or significance [2].