THE SOURCE
Six video records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 04, published at war.gov/ufo, cleared 10 July 2026: DOW-UAP-PR100 (Yellow Sea, 2023), PR101 (South China Sea, 2024), PR102 and PR103 (East China Sea, 2024), PR104 (Yellow Sea, 2025) and PR105 (East China Sea, 2025). All six are titled Unresolved UAP Report and were submitted to AARO by United States Indo-Pacific Command; five come from infrared sensors and one, PR100, from an electro-optical and infrared sensor system, all aboard U.S. military platforms. Each record carries an official written description, and those descriptions are the source for every account of the footage in this briefing.
Why this one is worth your time
The largest single block of new footage in Release 04 comes from one command and one region: six clips from Indo-Pacific Command platforms over the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, spanning 2023 to 2025. The 2025 items are the newest footage in the tranche. One description records a shape resembling a six-pointed star; another records a “line” of several objects crossing the frame together; a third notes that its own footage degrades and skips. This briefing summarises each clip from its official description and sets out what those descriptions give, and what they leave out.
What the clips show
The descriptions are written in a spare vocabulary: areas of contrast, pans, zooms, reticles, mode switches. Within it, each record is distinct.
PR100, Yellow Sea, 2023. The longest clip of the set, 4 minutes 57 seconds from the electro-optical and infrared system. Its description opens by recording that the overall quality of the footage progressively degrades over its runtime. The sensor tracks an area of contrast through zooms; just past the first minute the display switches to a daytime television feed and the video features a dark object superimposed against a blue background; back in infrared, the contrast is briefly lost, then reacquired and tracked. At 03:28 the footage appears to “skip”, or lose coherence, in the description’s own words, before returning to its previous state. The description’s header counts 4 minutes 57 seconds; its own timeline ends at 04:45.
PR101, South China Sea, 2024. 1 minute 46 seconds, infrared. The sensor zooms in on an elongated area of contrast which then appears, as the description puts it, as a “line” of several areas of contrast moving across the field of view from the bottom right to the top left. The sensor tracks them for approximately a minute; the record states they become less distinct over time as their distance from the sensor increases.
PR102 and PR103, East China Sea, 2024. 36 seconds and 1 minute 16 seconds, both infrared. In PR102 the sensor tracks a single area of contrast until it exits at the top of the frame, then zooms out and in several times on an empty scene. In PR103 an auto-tracking reticle surrounds the contrast from the twelfth second and the sensor holds it generally centre-frame to the end of the clip.
PR104, Yellow Sea, 2025. 18 seconds, infrared, and the shortest description in the set, a single action: the sensor pans to track an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star. The database places this record in its featured set.
PR105, East China Sea, 2025. 5 minutes, infrared, also in the featured set. The sensor tracks an area of contrast for the first minute and a half, portions of it intermittently losing distinctiveness against the background; early on, the image is momentarily overlaid with black rectangular areas. In a zoomed stretch the contrast exits the right edge of the frame several times. The final three minutes are zooms and panning with no content.
All six records sit in the database as unresolved, and every description closes with the same caveat sentence, quoted in full below.
What the clips do not show
Nothing in the six descriptions identifies an object. The records give incident dates to the year and locations to a sea: no coordinates, no altitude, no speed, no range, and no platform named beyond “a U.S. military platform”.
The descriptions record what the display does, not what anything is. Distance appears exactly once, in PR101’s note that its areas of contrast fade as their distance from the sensor increases; no other record ventures one.
Unlike the Range Fouler pairs of Release 04 Briefing 8, none of these six clips arrives with a paired debrief or witness narrative. The footage and its description are the whole released record.
The release database flags all six records as redacted. It does not state what was redacted.
From the record
The overall quality of this video footage progressively degrades over its runtime. The official description of DOW-UAP-PR100, its opening line
The area of contrast appears as a “line” of several areas of contrast moving across the sensor field-of-view from the bottom right to the top left. DOW-UAP-PR101’s description, at the 29-second mark
The sensor pans to track an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star, keeping it generally centered within the center of the screen. DOW-UAP-PR104’s description, the record’s single content line
This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance. The caveat that closes each of the six descriptions
Where the case connects
These seas are not new to the archive. Release 02 Briefing 15 read three clips from the same theatre, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea among them; this set carries the coverage forward to 2025. The star shape has a counterpart too: Release 01 Briefing 3 introduced PR38, a 2013 Middle East clip that press coverage described as an eight-pointed star, and that briefing’s walk-through of reticles, contrast modes and mode switches is the background for the vocabulary these descriptions use. The one other many-object record in this tranche, PR111 over the eastern United States, sits in Release 04 Briefing 12, and the remainder of the release’s footage is covered in Briefings 8, 12 and 13.
The records leave their own loose ends. Six clips from one command carry no paired reporting; the descriptions do not say what platforms were flying or what else was on the scope; and the two 2025 records are as close to the present as this tranche’s footage reaches. Any later tranche that releases paired debriefs, sensor metadata or an assessment of these records lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-PR100 through DOW-UAP-PR105, six Unresolved UAP Reports, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 04, official descriptions attached.
Watch the clips. Decide for yourself.
Related wiki entries
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References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-PR100, “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR101, “Unresolved UAP Report, South China Sea, 2024”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR102, “Unresolved UAP Report, East China Sea, 2024”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR103, “Unresolved UAP Report, East China Sea, 2024”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR104, “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2025”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR105, “Unresolved UAP Report, East China Sea, 2025”, PURSUE Release 04, 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 02 Briefing 15, on the Western Pacific clips
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 01 Briefing 3, on reading infrared sensor footage
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 04 Briefings 8, 12 and 13, the rest of the tranche’s footage