AARO-DOD_109670991 — Western U.S. Objects
- File
- AARO-DOD_109670991
- Agency
- AARO / DVIDS
- Incident date
- 2023
- File type
- VIDEO
- Length
- 3:51
In a public meeting of NASA’s Independent Study Team on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) on May 31, 2023, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), shared a video depicting three unidentified objects recorded on infrared video in 2021 from a military range in the western United States. Analysis of the full motion video, combined with commercial flight data in the region, led AARO to assess that the objects were three separate commercial aircraft flying at a great distance from the infrared sensor. The radar tracks for commercial aircraft aligned with the objects, which were only seen as small dots due to their significant distance from the sensor.
Key moments
AI-generated from video frames · may be inaccurate
- 0:00 The crosshair remains centered. A small, bright spot appears near the center of the top-left frame, moves right, and disappears in the top-right frame.
- 0:17 The cyan crosshair remains stationary. A small, bright spot appears near the centre of the top-left frame, moves right, and disappears in the top-right frame.
- 0:34 The crosshair remains stationary. A light source appears below and to the left of the crosshair in the bottom-left frame, moving down and right.
- 0:51 The scene shows clouds and sky. A light source appears at bottom centre in frame 3, moving down and right, exiting the frame.
- 1:09 The crosshair remains stationary. The clouds drift slowly to the right. No other changes are observed.
- 1:28 The crosshair remains stationary. A small bright spot appears at the centre of the crosshair in the top-left frame, moves right, and disappears in the top-right frame.
- 1:47 The crosshair remains static. An object moves from right of centre, left of centre, below centre, to right of centre, and slightly down.
- 2:05 The crosshair remains stationary. A small, bright spot moves from above and to the left of the crosshair, to below and to the right, exiting the frame.
- 2:24 The crosshair remains centered in each frame. A small, bright object appears below and to the right of the crosshair in the top-right frame, moving slightly left.
- 2:42 The crosshair and brackets move from top-left to top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right; a small bright spot appears at the top of the top-right frame.
- 2:57 The cyan crosshair moves from left to right, and the clouds and sky remain consistent across the frames.
- 3:11 The crosshair remains stationary. The bottom-left frame cuts to black. An object moves from the top-left, right of centre, to the bottom-right, below centre.
- 3:27 The cyan crosshair remains centered. The scene shows clouds against a black sky. The camera pans right and tilts down. No object or light source is visible.
- 3:43 An object moves from centre-right, above clouds, to centre-left, below clouds, between frames, while a cyan crosshair remains fixed.
- 3:48 An object moves from left to right, slightly up, relative to cloud and sensor overlay, in the centre of each frame, remaining in frame.
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