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AARO-DOD_111311850 — PR-005, UAP Report Resolved as a Balloon, Europe 2022

File
AARO-DOD_111311850
Agency
AARO / DVIDS
Incident date
2022
Location
Europe
File type
VIDEO
Length
0:32

The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of thirty-two seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022.

AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the object depicted in the video is almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a balloon. AARO bases its assessment on the object’s strong morphological consistency with other resolved imagery featuring balloons and the object’s performance characteristics strongly aligning with those of lighter-than-air objects, e.g., drifting at wind speed and direction.

Key moments

AI-generated from video frames · may be inaccurate

  • 0:00 Infrared sensor view with dark circular shading and light cloud along the top. A small white spot sits just below and right of the crosshair.
  • 0:03 The picture flashes white, then black, then flat grey for about half a second.
  • 0:04 The image returns with vertical stripes; the white spot, right of the crosshair, slides left across the view.
  • 0:06 Against plain grey sky the spot swings up from the left of the crosshair and across the top of the view to the upper right.
  • 0:09 Bright cloud sweeps in from the left and bottom; the spot sits above and right of the crosshair at the cloud edge.
  • 0:10 A layer of light and dark cloud fills the view; the spot stays near the crosshair, drifting from its right side to its upper left.
  • 0:23 The spot moves to the right of the crosshair, then settles just below it until the end.

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TL;DR

2022 balloon performance: drifting slower than my inbox replies.

  • PR-005 video, AARO, 2022 Europe, 0:32 length
  • 32 s infrared clip shows a bright spot moving across crosshair
  • AARO concludes with ≥95% confidence the object is a balloon

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Same topic: title & summary match

Same location: Europe

Same period: 2022

Same agency: AARO