THE SOURCE
(Unchanged: DOW-UAP-PR28, “Unresolved UAP Report Greece January 2024”. A 66-second infrared sensor clip, 1920 by 1080, released in PURSUE Release 01 by the U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov. Catalogued in the project inventory as a reported fast-moving diamond-shaped object tracked against a cloud bank.)
Why this one is worth your time
This is the second briefing in the series to take a single piece of footage rather than a document. Briefing 3 did the groundwork for all the video briefings: it explained how a targeting-pod feed actually works, the tracking reticle, the telemetry fields, the redaction blocks, why infrared inverts hot and cold, and why a single frame proves very little. The Greece clip is short, 66 seconds, and it is described in the release and in the project inventory as showing a fast-moving, diamond-shaped UAP. What it shows when you watch it frame by frame is both more and less than that description implies, and seeing the gap between the catalogue line and the image is the whole reason to sit with it.
What the file says
PR28 is a 66-second infrared clip from a military sensor, tagged Greece, January 2024. It shows a small, bright, compact object held near the centre of a tracking reticle while the sensor pans across a sky that is partly clear and partly filled with a large cloud bank. The sensor cycles through display modes during the clip: a split black-hot and white-hot view at the start, then a white-hot infrared view in which the object reads as a bright point, then a blue-tinted mode near the end. The object stays small and bright throughout and the cloud bank drifts behind it. This briefing is evidence tier 2, primary footage. Watching the full clip, the sequence is as follows.
The split-screen opening. It opens in a split-screen sensor mode. The frame is divided into two panels showing the same scene in different infrared polarities. A cloud bank fills the lower part of both panels and clear sky sits above. A small bright marker and the tracking reticle sit over the clear sky near the cloud tops. The object at this stage is a tiny bright speck. Heavy black redaction blocks cover the telemetry fields in every corner, as expected and as explained in Briefing 3.
The white-hot view. The clip then settles into a single white-hot infrared view. Here the object is clearest: a small, round, bright white point of light, held just to the side of the reticle by the tracking system. The background through this section is mostly a smooth, hazy grey, the look of infrared sky, with a large soft bright region that is the cloud bank seen in infrared. The object stays compact and bright. It does not visibly change shape. It does not trail a contrail or streak. It does not pulse or flare. It simply sits there as a bright dot while the sensor and the cloud move around it.
The cloud bank passing behind. As the clip continues the cloud bank passes behind the object. At several points the bright point is silhouetted against, or set just in front of, the brighter mass of cloud. This shows the object is being tracked against a real, textured background and is not simply a fixed blemish on the sensor, and it gives a parallax cue that, with telemetry, an analyst could use to bound the object’s distance.
The blue-tinted close. Near the end the sensor switches to a blue-tinted display mode. The sky becomes an even blue field, the object is a faint pale point near the reticle, and the clip ends shortly after.
The apparent motion. A targeting pod locks onto a contact and keeps it near the reticle by slewing the camera. On screen this makes the object look nearly stationary while the background sweeps past, and when the background appears to rush, that can be the camera slewing rather than the object accelerating. The “fast-moving” in the report is the sensor operator’s assessment from data the public clip does not contain. The object’s brightness in white-hot mode means it was warmer than the sky around it, or more reflective, or both; that holds of an aircraft, a drone, a glint off a balloon or a light aircraft, a hot engine or exhaust.
What the file does not say
The object’s shape. The clip shows a bright point. At the object’s size on the sensor, its shape is at or below the resolution of the image. The “diamond” comes from the written report, not from the footage as released. An analyst with the full-resolution sensor feed, zoom control and telemetry may well have resolved a diamond outline that the compressed, redacted public clip does not preserve; from the footage as released, the object is a bright compact point, and its shape is not resolved.
The object’s speed, size, altitude or distance. All of those depend on the telemetry, which is redacted out of the public clip. A bright point in front of a cloud could be close and small or distant and large, and the unaided viewer cannot tell the difference. “Fast-moving” is the operator’s reading of data the viewer does not have.
What the object was. “Unresolved” means the military’s analysts did not reach a conclusion; the object was not identified. A bright, compact, infrared-bright object tracked for about a minute against cloud is consistent with a range of ordinary explanations, an aircraft, a drone, a balloon, a glint, and the clip does not contain the information needed to rule them out.
Anything an analyst could conclude from the clip alone. Sixty-six seconds of footage with the data fields blacked out is a record that something was there and was tracked. It is not a record of what that something was. As set out in Briefing 3, a clip like this is a starting point for analysis.
From the record
“Unresolved UAP Report Greece January 2024” The clip’s catalogue title, DOW-UAP-PR28
a reported fast-moving diamond-shaped object tracked against a cloud bank The project inventory description of PR28
“Unresolved” The release’s own classification of the case, meaning the analysts reached no conclusion
Where the case connects
This is the second footage briefing in the series, and it rests on Briefing 3, which sets out how a targeting-pod feed works, the tracking reticle, the telemetry fields, the redaction blocks, why infrared inverts hot and cold, and why a single frame resolves little. Briefing 1 covers Release 01 as a whole and the evidence tier system.
The file also leaves its own loose ends, stated as facts. The telemetry fields are redacted in every corner, so the object’s true speed, size, altitude and distance are not on the public clip, and the “diamond” the catalogue records is not resolved in the image as released. The release states the footage is one short clip; whether a fuller-resolution feed, the telemetry, or any analyst’s determination exists is not part of what was published. Any later tranche that releases more of the PR28 record lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
The clip, DOW-UAP-PR28, “Unresolved UAP Report Greece January 2024”, is hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 01.
Read the file. Decide for yourself.
References and further reading
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- Source clip: DOW-UAP-PR28, Unresolved UAP Report Greece January 2024, PURSUE Release 01, hosted at war.gov
- Briefing 3, How to read infrared sensor footage, and the eight-pointed star
- Briefing 1, Release one, what is actually inside the Department of War’s first UAP document drop
- AARO UAP Records, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil/UAP-Records