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AARO-DOD_111217027 — PR-003, Unresolved UAP Report, Africa 2023

File
AARO-DOD_111217027
Agency
AARO / DVIDS
Incident date
2023
Location
Africa
File type
VIDEO
Length
4:58

In 2023, the United States Africa Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of four minutes and fifty-eight seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform.

The footage shows an apparent heat signature with characteristics consistent with those of a physical object. However, AARO cannot determine whether the observed signature originates from a physical source, either as a thermal emission or a thermal reflection, or other source, such as a heat differential in the environment or sensor display error. The available data is insufficient to evaluate the phenomenon’s performance characteristics.

Key moments

AI-generated from video frames · may be inaccurate

  • 0:16 The scene darkens, with an area of contrast moving into frame bottom-right, and a small light source visible in bottom-right and top-left frames.
  • 0:40 A small bright spot appears near the centre of the frame, moves slightly right and down, and grows dimmer, remaining visible in all four frames.
  • 1:54 A small bright spot drifts left of centre, below the crosshair, from top-left to bottom-right, remaining in-frame.
  • 2:13 The scene changes from cloudy to mostly clear with smoke at bottom right, with a black screen at bottom left, and sensor overlays appear and change.
  • 2:31 The scene changes from a road and trees to smoke, then back to the road and trees. The camera pans right and tilts down.
  • 2:50 The scene transitions from black to cloudy sky. A small light source appears at frame 2, centre-right of crosshair, and moves left, below crosshair by frame 4.
  • 3:26 The scene shows clouds and sky, with a crosshair and letters 'N' and 'F' in the centre of each frame; no changes are observed between frames.
  • 3:44 The scene changes from clouds to sunlit clouds. The camera pans right and tilts down.
  • 4:03 The scene changes, with the camera panning right and down, and an area of contrast moving from top-left to bottom-right, partially obscured by black rectangles.
  • 4:21 The scene transitions from land to clouds, with a small object visible in the bottom frames, moving slightly right and down, relative to the crosshair and frame centre.
  • 4:39 The scene shows clouds and sky, with no changes between frames, and a fixed crosshair and letters appear in each frame.

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TL;DR

Four minutes, fifty‑eight seconds later, nobody got a clear picture.

  • PR-003 video report, AARO, 2023, Africa.
  • Infrared footage shows heat signature of unknown origin, source indeterminate.
  • No official conclusion in the file

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Same topic: title & summary match

Same location: Africa

Same period: 2023

Same agency: AARO