THE SOURCE
(Unchanged: DOW-UAP-PR072, 17-second video clip, PURSUE Release 02, published at war.gov/ufo on 22 May 2026; uploader-defined title “ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinity of Karaganda International Airport”; AARO assesses a commercial mobile phone rear camera, March 2022, uploaded to a classified network in April 2023.)
Why this one is worth your time
This is the one file in the release where the government hands you a piece of footage and tells you, in the same breath, that it is not in its original state. Release 02 opened with a confirmed event on a military sensor; it closes with a phone clip carrying its own integrity warning. Both ends of that range are part of what an honest archive holds, and this file is the far end.
What the file says
The clip. Seventeen seconds, and much of it empty: the first three seconds and the last four carry no content. In between, the video fades in from black to show a luminous phenomenon with trails of diminishing brightness extending from its centre. The camera, a mobile phone, pans left and right and zooms in. Then it fades to black.
The paper trail. The uploader’s title places the clip near Karaganda International Airport in Kazakhstan and frames it as an administrative revision of an existing intelligence report. AARO assesses the source as a commercial mobile phone’s rear camera, the recording as March 2022, and the upload to a classified network as April 2023, from where it was incorporated into an intelligence report.
The warning. AARO’s description states that the media was digitally altered before it was uploaded, and that it is presented as received. The description does not say what was changed, by whom, or why, and does not claim to know. The alteration could be trivial, a crop or a compression pass, or substantial; on the released record there is no way to tell, and AARO offers none.
How it came to be published. PR072 is one of the 51 records that eight members of Congress asked to see, the request described in Release 02 Briefing 1. AARO released the responsive material with the alteration statement attached to this file.
What the file does not say
What the camera originally recorded. The luminous object, the radiating trails and the apparent motion all sit on the far side of an undocumented edit, and the released file does not carry the original.
The object’s range, size or speed: this is phone video, with no sensor data attached. The intelligence report it was filed into is referenced by the release, not reproduced; whatever analysis that report contains is not here. And the file rules nothing in and nothing out about what was over Karaganda that night, in either direction.
From the record
“ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinity of Karaganda International Airport” Uploader-defined title of DOW-UAP-PR072
The media was “digitally altered” prior to upload and is “presented as received.” AARO’s description of the file (wording per the release; confirm exact phrasing at publish)
Watch it yourself
The clip and AARO’s description are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 02, warning attached, all seventeen seconds.
Watch the clip. Decide for yourself.
References and further reading
(Unchanged from deployed: PR072; PURSUE at war.gov/ufo; AARO UAP Records; Release 02 Briefing 1 on the chain-of-custody caveat; Release 01 Briefing 1.)