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AARO-DOD_111311856 — PR-006, UAP Report Resolved as a Balloon, Europe 2022

File
AARO-DOD_111311856
Agency
AARO / DVIDS
Incident date
2022
Location
Europe
File type
VIDEO
Length
0:21

The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of twenty 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

  • 0:10 A small bright spot appears near the centre of the frame in the top left, moves right and down, and is visible in the top right and bottom left frames.

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TL;DR

2022’s hottest balloon party lasted just 21 seconds—no RSVP needed.

  • PR-006 video, AARO, 2022, Europe, 21‑second clip submitted by US European Command.
  • Shows infrared footage of a small bright spot drifting at wind speed, captured by a US military platform.
  • 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