THE SOURCE
DOW-UAP-PR134, PR136, PR142 and PR149, each titled “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East”, from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 05, published at war.gov/ufo, cleared 7 August 2026. Four video records: PR134 and PR142 from 2025, PR136 and PR149 from 2023. All four were submitted to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office by United States Central Command. No written record is released with any of them. The Department of War’s own published descriptions are the source for every account of the footage here.
Why this one is worth your time
The other two video blocks in Release 05 arrive with something attached to them. The six Gulf of Oman clips have an intelligence report that names them and describes what the aircrew saw. The five Pacific clips carry a Navy task force provenance, a route into AARO, and a notice that the media was digitally altered before AARO ever received it. These four have none of that. What is published is four files and four short official paragraphs.
That makes them the plainest look this release gives at what the Department of War puts out when it puts out footage and nothing else. It also makes them the only clips in the tranche described as coming off a sensor aboard a platform rather than off a hand-held or cellular device pointed at a sensor display. The eleven clips either side of them in the release are secondary captures or hand-held recordings. These four are not described that way.
And they arrive out of sequence. Eighteen of the thirty-three record numbers between PR117 and PR149 are not in this release, and the release says nothing about them.
What the clips show
The common frame. All four descriptions open with the same sentence: United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to AARO, consisting of a stated runtime of video footage from a named sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in a named year. Then comes a “Video description:” heading, a timestamped account of what is on screen, and the standard closing caveat. Nothing sits outside that shape. There is no location beyond “Middle East” in the title, no platform type, no unit, no submission date and no witness.
PR134, 2025, 1 minute 39 seconds. The longest of the four, and the only one attributed to an electro-optical and infrared sensor rather than infrared alone. Its description is a single unbroken block covering the full runtime: the sensor pans to track an area of contrast from left to right across the background, keeping it generally centred within the frame, and adjusts collection mode and level of magnification several times. That is the whole account of ninety-nine seconds. The released asset is 52,517,114 bytes; the VIRIN is 250101-D-D0360-7849.
PR136, 2023, 30 seconds. Infrared, in two segments. Through the first eight seconds the sensor pans to track an area of contrast and keeps it generally centred, while a component of the platform passes in front of the sensor and partially occludes it, obscuring the background. From nine seconds to the end the sensor zooms in on the area of contrast, a reticle briefly surrounds it, and the sensor is occluded by a component of the platform, this time obscuring the display. PR136 is the only one of the four in which a reticle appears, and the only one in which part of the platform intrudes into the picture. 12,249,790 bytes; VIRIN 230101-D-D0360-2888.
PR142, 2025, 14 seconds. Infrared, and the shortest of the four. Its description has three segments and two of them are logged as “No content”, the first running 00:00 to 00:04 and the last 00:09 to 00:14. Everything the record contains sits in the middle segment, 00:05 to 00:08: an area of contrast enters the sensor field-of-view from the left edge, transits from left to right, and exits the right edge of the frame. No sensor pan, zoom, mode change or tracking is recorded anywhere in it. 11,176,881 bytes; VIRIN 250101-D-D0360-3085.
PR149, 2023, 51 seconds. Infrared, in two segments. For the first four seconds an area of contrast transits the frame from the bottom right edge to the lower left edge of the sensor field-of-view. From 00:05 to 00:51, the remaining forty-six seconds, the sensor pans to track the area of contrast and keeps it generally within the centre of the frame. 55,170,181 bytes; VIRIN 230101-D-D0360-7117. It is the largest released file of the four, although PR134 runs almost twice as long; file size and runtime do not track each other across this set.
The bulk. Together the four carry 3 minutes 14 seconds of footage in 131,113,966 bytes, verified against the official videos bundle.
What the VIRINs carry. All four VIRIN date fields are January-first placeholders: 250101 on PR134 and PR142, 230101 on PR136 and PR149. They encode the year and nothing finer. The Gulf of Oman clips in the same release carry 210908, a real calendar date matching the paired report. For these four there is no day, no month and no ordering within the year.
Where they sit in time. PR134 and PR142, both 2025, are the most recent Department of War footage in Release 05; the other Department of War video records in this tranche are from 2021 and 2019. The newest video record in the release overall is FBI-UAP-PR007, from a 2026 incident, which is an FBI record and not part of this set.
What the clips do not show
They do not identify anything. Every one of the four closes with the same caveat: the description is provided for informational purposes only, and readers should not interpret any part of it as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature or significance. There is no assessment, no hypothesis and no attribution in any of the four.
There is no object language. The descriptions say “area of contrast” and stop there. No size, shape, altitude, speed, distance, heading, range or number. No temperature and no polarity, so none of the white-hot and black-hot vocabulary that the Gulf of Oman report uses. Nothing about the platform either: not its type, not whether it was airborne, not its unit, not what it was doing.
The geography is the word “Middle East” in the title. No country, no coordinates, no body of water, no base.
There is no paper. None of the four descriptions names an accompanying document, and nothing else in Release 05 pairs with them. The only paired sets in this release are DOW-UAP-D101 with PR117 to PR122, and FBI-UAP-D032 with FBI-UAP-PR007.
There is no chain of custody and no dates beyond the year. The descriptions do not say when the incidents were reported, when CENTCOM submitted them to AARO, whether these files are complete recordings or excerpts, or whether anything preceded or followed what is on screen.
They also carry none of the qualifiers the rest of the release uses. No “secondary capture”, no cellular device, no hand-held recording device, no stated limitations in fidelity, resolution or overall visual quality, and no warning that blurring or flickering artefacts may be present. No “digitally altered”. No AARO comment. No statement that any of them was captured contemporaneously with any other. Each is simply described as footage from a sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, and whether the four relate to one another is not addressed anywhere.
And the numbering is not accounted for. Release 04 ended the DOW-UAP-PR series at PR116. Release 05 runs PR117 to PR127 continuously, then jumps to PR134, then PR136, then PR142, then PR149. PR128 to PR133, PR135, PR137 to PR141 and PR143 to PR148 are not in this release: eighteen of the thirty-three numbers between PR117 and PR149. Nothing in Release 05 states what those records are, whether they exist, whether they were withheld, or when or whether they will be published. There is no withdrawal sheet, no exemption citation and no note of any kind against them.
From the record
consisting of 1 minute and 39 seconds of video footage from an electro-optical and infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025.
DOW-UAP-PR134, the opening sentence, following the standard line about CENTCOM submitting the report to AARO; this is the only one of the four attributed to an electro-optical and infrared sensor
The sensor adjusts collection mode and level of magnification several times.
DOW-UAP-PR134, the second half of the single 00:00 to 01:39 entry that is the entire video description
The sensor is partially occluded by a component of the platform passing in front of it, obscuring the background.
DOW-UAP-PR136, closing the 00:00 to 00:08 entry; the following entry records the sensor occluded again, obscuring the display rather than the background
A reticle briefly surrounds the area of contrast.
DOW-UAP-PR136, in the 00:09 to 00:33 entry; the only reticle in the four descriptions
An area of contrast enters the sensor field-of-view from the left edge, transits from left to right, and exits the right edge of the frame.
DOW-UAP-PR142, the 00:05 to 00:08 entry, which is the whole of the event; the segments either side of it are logged as No content
An area of contrast transits the frame from the bottom right edge to the lower left edge of the sensor field-of-view.
DOW-UAP-PR149, the 00:00 to 00:04 entry; the sensor then pans to track it for the remaining forty-six seconds
Where the case connects
The Middle East is the most heavily represented theatre in PURSUE’s video record, and CENTCOM is the submitting command across most of it. Release 05 Briefing 1 covered the other CENTCOM material in this same tranche, the Gulf of Oman set of September 2021, where a written intelligence report survives and the primary sensor footage does not. Release 02 Briefing 14 covered the 2020 wave from the same command. These four sit between those two in time and below both in documentation.
The vocabulary is the same vocabulary. Release 01 Briefing 3 walked through DOW-UAP-PR38, the 2013 Middle East infrared clip, and the standard terms the official descriptions use: reticles, contrast modes, sensor mode switches, areas of contrast. PR136’s reticle and PR134’s collection mode and magnification changes are that language still in service, three releases later.
What is missing here is missing in a pattern the release repeats elsewhere. Release 05 Briefing 13 sets out the tranche’s gaps in full, including FBI-UAP-D034 to D036 and the eighteen absent video numbers noted above. Any later tranche that publishes the records behind those numbers, or any written report behind these four clips, lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-PR134, PR136, PR142 and PR149, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East”, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 05 and on DVIDS at dvidshub.net, video IDs 1017792, 1017796, 1017797 and 1017799.
Watch the clips. Decide for yourself.
Related wiki entries
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References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-PR134, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025”, PURSUE Release 05, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR136, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023”, PURSUE Release 05, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR142, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025”, PURSUE Release 05, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR149, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023”, PURSUE Release 05, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- AARO UAP Records, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil/UAP-Records
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 1, on the Gulf of Oman set from the same command in this release
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 02 Briefing 14, on the 2020 CENTCOM wave
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 01 Briefing 3, on DOW-UAP-PR38 and the vocabulary the official video descriptions use