THE SOURCE
DOW-UAP-PR123, PR124, PR125, PR126 and PR127, each titled “Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019”, five video records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 05, published at war.gov/ufo, cleared 7 August 2026. No document is released with them and none of the five names one. The Department of War’s own published descriptions of the five clips are the source for every account of the footage here.
Why this one is worth your time
The other two Department of War video blocks in Release 05 arrive through a combatant command. The six Gulf of Oman clips and the four Middle East clips all open the same way, with United States Central Command submitting a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to AARO. These five do not. They open with the United States Navy Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force transferring media to AARO in 2022, and the words “submitted a report” appear nowhere in any of the five descriptions. What moved was not a report but media, handed from one Pentagon office to the one that succeeded it.
The second thing is a single sentence, repeated five times. Each description states that the media was digitally altered before being reported to AARO and is presented as it was received. In Release 04 that language appeared on exactly one clip, PR113. Here it sits on an entire block, and nothing in the release says what was altered, by whom, or when.
What the clips show
The block. Five records, one title, one year, five runtimes: PR123 runs 1 minute 4 seconds, PR124 53 seconds, PR125 28 seconds, PR126 2 minutes 32 seconds and PR127 2 minutes 29 seconds. That is 7 minutes 26 seconds across the set, longer than the other ten Department of War clips in Release 05 put together, which run 5 minutes 15 seconds between them. The files are 44,368,966 bytes, 64,214,893, 33,427,558, 89,410,590 and 84,195,488 in the same order. PR126 is the largest single video file in the release, and the five together come to 315,617,495 bytes, about fifty-eight per cent of the 546,128,968 bytes of video the release contains from five of its sixteen video records. Size does not track runtime: the 53-second PR124 is a bigger file than the 1 minute 4 second PR123.
The provenance sentence. All five open with the identical line naming the Navy’s UAP Task Force and 2022 as the year of transfer. No submitting command, unit, originating office or reporting individual is named anywhere in the five.
Two capture methods, not one. The block splits three and two. PR123, PR124 and PR125 are each described as a secondary capture, recorded via a hand-held recording device, of an infrared sensor display aboard a U.S. military platform. Each of those three carries the standard secondary-capture caveats: the footage does not represent native primary sensor data, the method introduces limitations in fidelity, resolution and overall visual quality, and artifacts inherent to filming a screen such as blurring or flickering may be present. PR126 and PR127 are described differently. Each is footage captured via a hand-held recording device by a U.S. military service member in 2019, with low-light conditions at the time of capture influencing the overall visual quality. Those two mention no screen, no sensor display and no platform, and the word infrared appears in neither. PR126 omits the article, reading “captured via hand-held recording device”; PR127 has it.
The contemporaneous sentence. All five state that the footage contained within PR123 through PR127 was captured contemporaneously. That is the only statement in the release about how the five relate.
The timelines. PR123 opens with an area of contrast near the centre of the frame, which loses distinctiveness against the background between 00:04 and 00:07; from 00:08 an area of contrast becomes visible again, the sensor pans and zooms in, and from 00:25 to the end it stays generally centred. PR124 is centred for one second, the sensor zooms in for 27 seconds, and from 00:30 to the end the area of contrast loses distinctiveness against the background; the clip closes on the loss, not on a track. PR125 fits five events into 28 seconds: centred, tracking left, losing distinctiveness, then a fresh area of contrast at 00:16 which the sensor pans to follow and holds to the end.
PR126 and PR127 read differently. PR126 begins with the camera panning against the background and bringing two apparent light sources into frame from the top left corner, then spends 44 seconds repeatedly bringing several apparent light sources into and out of the frame as it pans. At 00:54 the vocabulary changes: the sensor zooms in on the light source in the lower left quarter of the frame, and from 01:24 the sensor zooms out and continues to pan. The description uses “camera” for the first 53 seconds and “sensor” for the remaining 98. PR127 is five identical sentences, “The camera pans to track an apparent light source.”, separated by four spans each marked “No content.” Its last span ends at 02:28 against a stated runtime of 2 minutes 29 seconds.
The labels. The VIRINs are 190101-D-D0360-2393, -4404, -5823, -9686 and -4342. All five date fields read 190101. The six Gulf of Oman clips carry 210908, the actual date of that event; here the field encodes the year and nothing more, and no month or day for these five appears anywhere in the release. The four-digit tails do not run in sequence.
The close. Every one of the five ends with the same caveat: the description is for informational purposes only, and no part of it should be read as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion or factual determination about the event’s validity, nature or significance. Fifteen of the sixteen Release 05 video records carry it.
What the clips do not show
They do not show a location. “Pacific Ocean” is the whole of it: no coordinates, no sea area, no range or bearing, no country or territory named.
They do not show a date. The titles say 2019, the VIRIN date field says 2019, and the two hand-held descriptions repeat 2019. Nothing narrows it further.
They do not show a platform. Three descriptions say “a U.S. military platform” and stop there; the other two mention none at all. No ship, no aircraft, no squadron, no unit, no hull number and no sensor type beyond “an infrared sensor display”.
They do not show a witness or an account. Nobody is quoted, nobody is described beyond “a U.S. military service member”, nobody’s report is referenced, and no paired written record exists for any of the five in this release. There is no assessment, no hypothesis, no identification and no attribution. As in the Gulf of Oman set, the word “unresolved” in the release titles appears nowhere in the description text.
They do not explain the alteration. The sentence says the media was digitally altered before being reported to AARO and is presented as it was received. It does not say what was altered, whether to image, audio, metadata or file, whether by cropping, compression, redaction or something else, who did it, when between capture in 2019 and transfer in 2022, whether AARO holds an unaltered copy, or whether the alteration is visible in what was published. The phrase is in the record. The explanation is not.
They do not count anything. Every other description keeps to the singular; only PR126 goes past it, with “two apparent light sources” at the start and “several” thereafter. There is no object count for the block, no size, no speed, no altitude, no distance and no duration of any encounter as distinct from the runtime of any clip.
They do not say how the five fit together. “Captured contemporaneously” is the only link stated. Nothing says whether this is one event or several, whether the same objects appear in more than one clip, whether the sensor clips and the hand-held clips were taken from the same place, or in what order they were shot. None of the five carries an AARO comment, unlike PR121 and PR122 in the same release, which each carry one noting their overlap with the other.
And they say nothing about handling. Three years pass between capture in 2019 and the transfer in 2022, and four more between that transfer and publication in August 2026; the release describes neither.
From the record
The United States Navy Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) transferred this media to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022.
The opening sentence of the official description of DOW-UAP-PR123, and of each of PR124, PR125, PR126 and PR127
This footage is a secondary capture, recorded via a hand-held recording device, of an infrared sensor display aboard a U.S. military platform.
The official descriptions of DOW-UAP-PR123, PR124 and PR125, the three clips filmed off a screen
The video contains 2 minutes and 32 seconds of footage captured via hand-held recording device by a U.S. military service member in 2019.
The official description of DOW-UAP-PR126, the other capture method; PR127 carries the same sentence with its own runtime and the article restored
This media was digitally altered before being reported to AARO, and is presented as it was received.
The closing sentence of the provenance paragraph in all five descriptions; the release does not say what was altered
00:54-01:23: The sensor zooms in on the light source in the lower left quarter of the frame, focusing to bring it into the center of the field-of-view.
The official description of DOW-UAP-PR126, where the wording switches from camera to sensor
00:18-00:26: No content.
The official description of DOW-UAP-PR127, the first of four such spans in a clip whose other five spans are one repeated sentence
Where the case connects
Release 05 Briefing 1 covered the six Gulf of Oman clips, and that is the useful comparison. Those six are also secondary captures of an infrared display, but filmed on a cellular device, aboard a named AC-130J gunship, submitted by CENTCOM, and attached to a written intelligence report that says what the crew saw. These five say only “hand-held recording device”, and name no aircraft, no command and no document. Release 05 Briefing 3 covers the four CENTCOM records from 2023 and 2025 in this tranche, native sensor footage rather than screen captures. Release 02 Briefing 15 covered three Indo-Pacific clips, the closest earlier parallel by theatre.
For the vocabulary, Release 01 Briefing 3 walked through DOW-UAP-PR38, the 2013 Middle East infrared clip, and its reticles, contrast modes and sensor mode switches. The three sensor clips here use the same restricted grammar, “area of contrast” and “sensor field-of-view”, and the two hand-held clips drop it for “apparent light source”. The descriptions never call anything an object.
The digital-alteration sentence has one precedent. Release 04 carried it on PR113 alone. Release 05 puts it on five clips at once, and on no other record in the tranche.
The numbering leaves its own gap. Release 04 ended at PR116, this release runs PR117 to PR127 and then jumps to PR134; nothing accounts for PR128 to PR133. If a later tranche releases the UAPTF’s own paperwork on these five, an explanation of the alteration, or an unaltered copy, it lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-PR123, PR124, PR125, PR126 and PR127, “Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019”, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 05, and on DVIDS at dvidshub.net as video records 1017805, 1017806, 1017788, 1017790 and 1017791.
Watch the clips. Decide for yourself.
Related wiki entries
The wiki entries below give background on the programme and publisher behind this briefing, and on the subjects it touches.
References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-PR123 to DOW-UAP-PR127, “Unresolved UAP Report, Pacific Ocean, 2019”, PURSUE Release 05, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- Official video descriptions for DOW-UAP-PR123 to PR127, Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, dvidshub.net
- 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 clips and their paired report
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 02 Briefing 15, on three Indo-Pacific clips
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 01 Briefing 3, on DOW-UAP-PR38 and the vocabulary of the infrared descriptions