THE SOURCE
(Unchanged: DOW-UAP-PR067 and DOW-UAP-PR050, two infrared video clips from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 02, published at war.gov/ufo on 22 May 2026. Their uploader-defined titles are “Multiple Spherical UAP USO near Sub. [CALLSIGN] 2022/03/25 in and out of water” and “4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022 over water [CALLSIGN]”. AARO assesses both are likely from infrared sensors on U.S. military platforms, PR050 in the U.S. Central Command area in 2022.)
Why this one is worth your time
One of the most extraordinary claims in UAP discussion is the transmedium claim: that some objects move freely between air and water, treating the sea surface as no barrier. Objects that do this are often called USOs, unidentified submerged objects, and nothing in ordinary aviation or naval engineering behaves that way. Release 02 contains a clip whose uploader-defined title makes exactly that claim. This briefing pairs it with a second clip of objects over water, introduces the transmedium question for the series, and sets what the uploader asserted beside what the government described. The gap between those two is the whole lesson.
What the file says
PR067 is an unusually long clip for this release, almost five minutes. Its uploader titled it as multiple spherical UAP and USOs near a submarine, moving “in and out of water”. The government’s own description tracks several “areas of contrast” entering and leaving the sensor’s field of view over the duration, with the sensor panning and zooming to follow them, and does not say any object entered or left water. PR050 is a 20-second clip from the Central Command area in 2022; its description records four areas of contrast transiting the field of view together, and a fifth entering separately. The uploader called this a four-object formation over water off Iran.
The title and the description are two layers. This point was introduced in Release 02 Briefing 1 and reaches its sharpest form here. Every video in Release 02 carries two layers of text: the uploader-defined title, written by whoever placed the file on a classified network, and the description AARO attaches, which states where the footage probably came from and gives a plain, second-by-second account of what is on screen. For PR067 the two layers say different things. The uploader’s title asserts USOs going “in and out of water”. AARO’s description tracks “areas of contrast” and never mentions water entry or exit at all. The single most remarkable element of the file, transmedium travel, is present in the uploader’s words and absent from AARO’s account of the imagery.
Why a sea surface can produce the appearance of transmedium behaviour. There is a physical reason this matters, specific to infrared footage shot over water. A calm or slick sea surface is, to an infrared sensor, partly a mirror. A warm object flying low over water can produce two areas of contrast: the object itself, and its thermal reflection in the surface below it. As the object descends towards the water, it and its reflection converge; if the object then passes behind the horizon, behind a wave, or simply drops below the sensor’s line of sight to the surface, it can appear to merge with the water and vanish, then reappear. To an eye looking for a USO, that sequence reads as an object entering and leaving the sea. To the geometry, it is an object near a reflective surface moving relative to a sensor. “Appeared to go in and out of water” is the kind of impression that ordinary objects, sensors and sea surfaces can produce together, without anything actually entering the water.
The formation in PR050. Four areas of contrast cross the sensor’s field of view together, and a fifth enters separately. The uploader called it a four-object formation over water. “Formation” implies coordination, a deliberate shared pattern, which in turn hints at control and common purpose. The footage records four objects moving across the frame at roughly the same time, in roughly the same direction. That is consistent with a coordinated formation; it is equally consistent with four birds in a loose group, four balloons released together drifting on the same wind, or four drones. Twenty seconds of infrared, with no telemetry, does not distinguish a controlled formation from a coincidental cluster.
What the file does not say
That any object went in or out of water. That claim lives in PR067’s uploader-written title and not in AARO’s description of the footage, and infrared geometry over a reflective sea surface can produce the appearance of transmedium travel without the reality of it.
A controlled formation in PR050. Four objects crossing a frame together is consistent with coordination and equally with coincidence, and the clip does not separate them; “formation” is a description of appearance, not a finding about intent.
What any of the objects were. Both clips lack telemetry, and both are consistent with a range of ordinary explanations near coastal water.
A documented provenance beyond AARO’s sensor assessment. Given the Release 02 chain-of-custody caveat from Release 02 Briefing 1, what accompanies the clips is AARO’s sensor-origin assessment, not a documented chain of custody.
From the record
“Multiple Spherical UAP USO near Sub. [CALLSIGN] 2022/03/25 in and out of water.” The uploader-defined title of PR067
“4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022 over water [CALLSIGN].” The uploader-defined title of PR050
Several “areas of contrast” entering and leaving the sensor’s field of view, the sensor panning and zooming to follow them. AARO’s description of PR067
Where the case connects
This pair carries the transmedium question for the series, and the title-versus-description point reaches its sharpest form here, having been introduced in Release 02 Briefing 1, which also covers the Release 02 chain-of-custody caveat that applies to both clips. Release 01 Briefing 3, on the clip PR38, covers how to read a military infrared feed in general, the grounding both clips rest on.
The file also leaves its own threads. PR067 runs almost five minutes with multiple objects and sustained tracking, yet carries no telemetry; PR050 is twenty seconds with no telemetry either; both come with AARO’s sensor-origin assessment rather than a documented chain of custody; and the transmedium claim and the “formation” reading sit in the uploader titles rather than in AARO’s descriptions. Any later tranche that releases telemetry or provenance for either clip lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-PR067 and DOW-UAP-PR050 are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 02, the near-five-minute clip near a submarine and the 20-second clip over water off Iran.
Read the file. Decide for yourself.
References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-PR067 and DOW-UAP-PR050, PURSUE Release 02, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, 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 01 Briefing 3, “How to read infrared sensor footage, and the eight-pointed star”
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 02 Briefing 1, on the Release 02 chain-of-custody caveat and uploader-defined titles