THE SOURCE
Five video records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 04, published at war.gov/ufo, cleared 10 July 2026: DOW-UAP-PR113 (Western United States, 1996), PR114 (Atlantic Ocean, 2016), PR115 (Gulf of America, 2019), and PR024 and PR030 (Middle East, 2023). All five are titled Unresolved UAP Report. PR113 was transferred to AARO in 2022 by the U.S. Navy’s UAP Task Force; PR114 was submitted by United States Northern Command, PR115 by the United States Air Force, and PR024 and PR030 by United States Central Command. “Gulf of America” is the release database’s own location label for PR115. 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 remaining five clips of Release 04 do not form a single case cluster; what they share is that each extends the archive’s coverage somewhere it had not reached, backwards in time or across another map square. One of them, the 1996 file, is the oldest footage PURSUE has published under any tranche, and it arrives with its handling history written into its own record. This briefing summarises the five descriptions and closes out the release’s video inventory: with these, all nineteen Release 04 clips are covered across Briefings 8, 11, 12 and 13.
What the clips show
PR113, Western United States, 1996. 2 minutes 57 seconds, likely captured, its description says, by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, and transferred to AARO by the Navy’s UAP Task Force in 2022. The description states that no formal data handling practices for UAP records existed when it was reported, that the media was digitally altered before being reported, and that it is presented as received. The live content is four seconds: an area of contrast transits the field of view, entering near the upper right corner and exiting near the lower left. The rest of the file, the record states, is that footage repeating frame by frame, repeating at a slower playback speed, and holding on a frame extracted from the first 17 seconds. The database places the record in its featured set.
PR114, Atlantic Ocean, 2016. 39 seconds, infrared, from Northern Command. The sensor zooms in and out to track an area of contrast; after a mode switch a white reticle surrounds it; the sensor then stops tracking, causing the object, in the description’s own word, to exit the right side of the frame; in the final two seconds another area of contrast enters from the right.
PR115, Gulf of America, 2019. 8 seconds, infrared, submitted by the Air Force, and also in the featured set. An area of contrast sits near the centre of the field of view, partially obscured by elements of the heads-up display, and visually flickers as the sensor tracks it. The record appends an AARO Comment, the only one attached to this briefing’s five records, explaining in general terms that when a tracked source’s temperature is close to that of its surroundings, auto-gain contrast adjustments can make it blend into the background or appear to flicker. The comment is quoted in full below; the record sits in the database as unresolved like the rest.
PR024 and PR030, Middle East, 2023. 18 and 10 seconds, infrared, both from Central Command. In PR024 the sensor zooms in on a dark area of contrast; two bright areas of contrast transit the frame from left to right and exit; the sensor refocuses on the dark contrast, a reticle surrounds it, and the clip ends with a contrast and zoom change flashing the frame white. In PR030 two areas of contrast transit the field of view within about two seconds, the first entering from the bottom right and exiting the top edge, the second, relatively smaller, entering from the top and exiting the bottom; the rest is no content.
What the clips do not show
No object is identified in any of the five descriptions. Locations are a region or a sea, dates are years, and no platform is named beyond “a U.S. military platform”; there is no altitude, speed or range anywhere in the set.
PR113’s record does not say what was altered, by whom or how, and its unaltered original is not in the release. Even the sensor type is the record’s own inference: the description says “likely captured” by an infrared sensor, the same hedge its 2015 counterpart PR109 carries in Release 04 Briefing 12.
The AARO Comment on PR115 is written as a general note on how infrared auto-gain behaves. It does not state a conclusion about this record.
The release database flags PR113, PR114, PR115 and PR030 as redacted; PR024 carries no such flag. The database does not state what was redacted.
Each description ends with the standard caveat that it reflects no analytical judgment about the event it describes; the sentence is quoted in full in Release 04 Briefing 11.
From the record
This media was digitally altered before being reported to the UAPTF, and is presented as it was received by AARO. DOW-UAP-PR113’s official description; PR109’s description carries the identical sentence
The footage holds on a frame extracted from the first 17 seconds of the video. DOW-UAP-PR113’s description, its final timeline entry
When a tracked source’s temperature is similar to that of the surrounding environment, it can visually blend into the background or appear to flicker due to dynamic contrast adjustments applied by the system’s auto-gain control filters. The AARO Comment appended to DOW-UAP-PR115’s record
Two bright areas of contrast transit the frame from left to right. DOW-UAP-PR024’s description, at the two-second mark
Where the case connects
The altered-file thread runs through the releases: PR113’s alteration statement matches, word for word, the one on PR109 in Release 04 Briefing 12, and the archive first met the pattern on Release 02’s Karaganda clip, Briefing 10 of that release. The Middle East pair extends a documented run: Release 02 Briefing 18 read Central Command clips from 2018 and 2019, Release 02 Briefing 14 the 2020 wave, and PR024 and PR030 carry the run to 2023. Release 01 Briefing 3, on reading infrared footage, covers the sensor behaviours these descriptions record; PR105’s description in Release 04 Briefing 11 records the same on-screen behaviour the PR115 comment describes, a contrast intermittently losing distinctiveness against the background, without an accompanying note of its own. PR113’s location label, Western United States, is the same one the database gives PR108, twenty-four years later, in Briefing 12. With this group, the tranche’s video inventory closes: nineteen clips across Briefings 8, 11, 12 and 13.
The records leave their own loose ends. The 1996 original, before alteration, is not in the release; none of the five carries a paired debrief or witness account; and 1996, the year PR113 reaches back to, appears elsewhere in this tranche only in the STS-80 frames of Briefing 9, three NASA stills from that same year. Any later tranche that releases the unaltered media, paired reporting or more footage from that era lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-PR113, PR114, PR115, PR024 and PR030, five 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-PR113, “Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 1996”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR114, “Unresolved UAP Report, Atlantic Ocean, 2016”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR115, “Unresolved UAP Report, Gulf of America, 2019”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR024, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR030, “Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023”, 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 10, on the Karaganda altered clip
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 02 Briefing 18, on the 2018-2019 Central Command clips
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 02 Briefing 14, on the 2020 Central Command wave
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 01 Briefing 3, on reading infrared sensor footage
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 04 Briefing 9, on the STS-80 frames
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 04 Briefings 8, 11 and 12, the rest of the tranche’s footage