THE SOURCE
DOW-UAP-PR143, DOW-UAP-PR144, DOW-UAP-PR150, DOW-UAP-PR151 and DOW-UAP-PR152, each titled “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023”, and DOW-UAP-PR148, “Unresolved UAP Report, East China Sea, 2023”, six video records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 06, published at war.gov/ufo on 18 September 2026 and on DVIDS. The titles are the DVIDS titles; no clip carries a title of its own. Each official description opens by saying that United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report to AARO consisting of video footage “from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023”, gives its runtime (19 seconds for PR143, 27 for PR144, 59 for PR148, 57 for PR150, 49 for PR151, 1 minute 38 seconds for PR152), sets out timed entries and closes by saying it is provided for informational purposes only. Every VIRIN’s date field reads 230101. No written record is released with any of the six, and no description names one. The pictures are greyscale, with symbols drawn in white on PR143, PR148 and PR151, orange on PR144, blue on PR150 and green on PR152. PR143 and PR144 fill a 1,920 by 1,080 frame; PR148 is 1,908 by 1,028, PR150 908 by 512 and PR152 1,188 by 668; PR151’s picture sits inset in a black border inside a 1,920 by 1,080 frame. Every clip carries solid black boxes with no code printed on them. What the Department says is taken from the descriptions; what the clips show was read from one frame per second, or measured on those frames, for this briefing.
Why this one is worth your time
Release 05 Briefing 3 listed PR143 to PR148 among the record numbers missing from Release 05. Three of them, PR143, PR144 and PR148, arrive here with PR150, PR151 and PR152. Theirs are the only Release 06 descriptions that name Indo-Pacific Command, and the only titles in the release that name a sea. The release’s four other military sensor clips each come with a mission report that its description names; these six come with a runtime and a few timed lines each.
So the frames are the whole record, and the descriptions the only official reading of them. Set side by side, second by second, the two agree in places and differ in others. This briefing sets out each clip as the frames show it, with its description beside it, and does not decide between them. It also sets out what the descriptions leave out: a caption postponing public disclosure, black boxes on every clip, and on two clips a box that moves.
What the clips show
What all six share. Each opens on a caption across the foot of the picture, gone from 00:05, which reads, from the frames: Public disclosure of this information is postponed in accordance with 44 U.S.C. § 2107 Section 1843, UAP Postponement Code E.O. 13526. Each carries the same drawn symbols: a centre cross whose arms stop short of the middle, four corner marks framing a rectangle round it, and a letter N off to one side. Outside the caption no number, time, date, place or label appears in any frame.
PR143, 19 seconds. A mottled grey field with no horizon fills the frame. At the centre, inside four small brackets, sits one dark spot, roughly round at 00:00 and an upright oval by 00:18. Nothing else changes: measured across all nineteen frames, the picture around the spot does not shift, and the specks in the field stay where they were. The description’s single entry has the sensor panning to track an area of contrast and keeping it generally within the centre (block below).
PR144, 27 seconds. From 00:00 to 00:02 layered cloud tops fill the frame, and the orange corner marks frame a rectangle about a sixth of the picture across. At 00:03 they jump out to about half, the scene becomes a dark, finely rippled surface with a bright bank of cloud, and a small bright point appears high on the left. It moves widely about the picture to 00:10; from 00:11 it stays near the centre, with no bracket or square drawn round it and never held on the cross, while cloud and surface move past. At 00:22 to 00:24 the orange symbols smear into trails, and the clip ends with the point up and to the right of the centre. The description puts an area of contrast above and to the left of the centre at 00:00 to 00:02 (block below), then has the sensor increasing its magnification and tracking it from 00:03. This briefing found no bright point in the frames before 00:03, when the first appears above and to the left of the centre.
PR148, 59 seconds. It opens on a rippled surface with a dark elongated shape at the centre, a raised structure on its upper side, on a bright patch that trails away behind it. Neither the screen nor the description says what it is. The shape drifts up and to the left, is back under the cross at 00:11, then crosses to the right edge and is gone from 00:16. From about 00:13 a small dark spot shows near the centre on most seconds to the end, drifting round the cross without being held on it. At 00:47, within one second, the surface texture gives way to a flatter grey with broad vertical bands; the cross, corner marks and letter do not move. The description logs 00:00 to 00:03 as “No content.” (block below), has an area of contrast tracked near the centre from 00:04 to 00:46, and puts an increase in magnification at 00:47 (block below). In the frames, the seconds logged as no content carry the elongated shape, the bright trailing patch and the caption.
PR150, 57 seconds. A flat light grey field. At 00:00 two small dark elongated shapes, each with a bright point, lie one on the left arm of the blue cross and one near the top left corner mark. From 00:01 to 00:09 a solid black rectangle covers the centre of the cross; at 00:10 it sits below and to the left, and then it is gone. A small dark mark shows in the lower middle at 00:06. At 00:07 and 00:11 the picture breaks into blocks, with a rectangular panel of different tone across its middle, and at 00:29 it smears. The corner marks frame about half the picture to 00:06, close in to about a third at 00:07 to 00:10, go back to half at 00:11 to 00:28 and frame about a sixth from 00:30. From 00:46 a soft-edged dark region enters from the right and by 00:53 covers the right half, and in the last four seconds the left turns near white. The description logs 00:00 to 00:05 as “No content.”, has an area of contrast entering “from the bottom edge” at 00:06 to 00:07, and puts a rectangular overlay, or focus box, near the centre from 00:08 to 00:51 (block below), calling it “a graphical component of the sensor system” that “does indicate a physical change in the environment”, as published. Its last entry has the platform’s geometry occluding the sensor (block below).
PR151, 49 seconds. Inside its black border, a finely streaked surface lit by two bright bands down the sides. A small bright spot in four small brackets starts to the left of the cross and has moved in to its centre by about 00:16. From 00:06 to 00:10 a bright jagged streak crosses the foot of the picture from right to left. At 00:16 the picture drops to near black for one second, and at 00:19 it turns near white for one second. From 00:20 the light falls as one pool at the centre, the texture is coarser, and the spot is drawn larger, with a pale streak below it and the brackets set wider apart; the corner marks do not change. The spot stays at the centre to the end. The description has the sensor tracking an area of contrast from 00:00 to 00:15, increasing its magnification at 00:16 to 00:18 (block below) and keeping the area of contrast generally within the centre from 00:19.
PR152, 1 minute 38 seconds. Layered cloud tops slide from right to left across the frame. At 00:05 a green square is drawn round the cross and holds exactly in place to 00:25; its corners break apart and drift down and to the left at 00:26 and 00:27, and it returns, the same size in the same place, from 00:35 to 00:48. It breaks again at 00:49 and 00:50 and is not drawn from 00:51; the last 47 seconds are cloud with no square. On about a third of the seconds the square is up, a small bright point shows just outside it, below it, beside it or above its right side. The square does not move towards it, and at the resolution of these frames nothing definite can be made out inside it. The description’s single entry has the sensor tracking an area of contrast and keeping it generally within the centre for the whole runtime (block below).
The black boxes. None carries a code, and most never move: seven on PR143, six on PR144 and PR148, five on PR150, seven on PR151, eight on PR152. On five of the six, six of them stand at the same places as a share of the picture: the top left corner, the top edge from just left of the middle, the top right corner, the left edge at mid-height, the bottom right corner and the bottom left. Measured for this briefing over every frame, their horizontal positions agree to within about a hundredth of the picture’s width; their vertical positions vary by up to about a twentieth of its height, and their sizes more. PR151’s line up this way only against its inset picture, not the whole frame. PR143, PR151 and PR152 add further boxes along the top edge. PR150’s are laid out differently, with a tall box down most of the left edge and a large one in the upper middle. Two boxes move: the rectangle on PR150’s cross, and on PR152 a small black rectangle against the right edge of the green square, drawn from 00:06 to 00:25 and from 00:36 to 00:48, moving with the square’s corners when they break, and drawn once more, alone, at 00:51.
What the clips do not show
They name nothing. The descriptions give an infrared sensor aboard “a U.S. military platform”, and no ship, aircraft, unit or sensor model. Every description calls what the sensor follows “an area of contrast”, and none gives an identification, a size, a speed, a distance or a count.
They do not account for the caption or the boxes. No description mentions the caption, and none mentions a black box; the only box any of them names is PR150’s focus box, a rectangular digital overlay. No text in the release explains Section 1843 or the postponement code. What lies under the black boxes, including at the centre of PR150’s cross from 00:01 to 00:09, is not in the released picture.
They give nothing finer than the year and the sea. The VIRIN date field reads 230101 and the DVIDS date-taken field 01.01.2023 on all six. The place is the sea in the title, which the DVIDS location field repeats; there are no coordinates.
They do not say how the six relate. No description mentions another or says any were recorded together, and none carries the secondary-capture, hand-held or digitally-altered wording of earlier releases. No written record in the release names them: no text this project extracted from its 56 PDF records mentions the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, Indo-Pacific Command or any of the six record numbers.
They carry no sound: measured by this project on the issued files, each clip’s audio track is digital silence, mean and maximum volume minus 91.0 dB.
From the record
00:00-00:19: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast, keeping it generally within the center of the frame.
DOW-UAP-PR143, the one timed entry of the official description, covering the whole clip
00:00-00:02: An area of contrast is visible above and to the left of the center of the frame.
DOW-UAP-PR144, the first of the description’s two timed entries; the second has the sensor increasing its magnification from 00:03
00:00-00:03: No content.
DOW-UAP-PR148, the first timed entry of the description, over the seconds in which the frames show the elongated shape and the caption
00:47-00:59: The sensor increases its level of magnification while panning to track the area of contrast.
DOW-UAP-PR148, the last timed entry, at the second the surface texture in the frames gives way to a flatter, banded grey
00:08-00:51: A rectangular digital overlay, or “focus box,” appears near the center of the frame.
DOW-UAP-PR150, the first sentence of the third timed entry, which goes on to call the box a graphical component of the sensor system
00:52-00:57: The collection platform geometry occludes the sensor, blurring the display and blocking the right side of the screen.
DOW-UAP-PR150, the last timed entry of the description
00:16-00:18: The sensor increases its level of magnification and pans to track the area of contrast.
DOW-UAP-PR151, the second of three timed entries, covering the second in which the frames go near black and the two after it
00:00-01:38: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast, keeping it generally within the center of the frame.
DOW-UAP-PR152, the one timed entry of the official description, covering the whole clip
Where the case connects
Release 05 Briefing 3 covered four Central Command clips, also described as footage from a sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, one of them, DOW-UAP-PR136, partly occluded by a component of the platform; it also listed PR143 to PR148 among the numbers missing from Release 05. PR145, PR146 and PR147 are in neither release. Release 05 Briefing 2 covered five Pacific clips of 2019 that the Navy’s UAP Task Force transferred to AARO: three secondary captures of an infrared sensor display, two hand-held recordings, all five described as digitally altered before they were reported to AARO. Release 04 Briefing 11 covered six Indo-Pacific Command clips over the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea from 2023 to 2025.
Inside Release 06, DOW-UAP-PR133, PR135, PR140 and PR141 are the other military sensor clips, each with a mission report its description names; Release 06 Briefings 6 and 7 cover them. How the black boxes fall across all ten sensor clips in the release is set out in Release 06 Briefing 24.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-PR143, PR144, PR150, PR151 and PR152, “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023”, and DOW-UAP-PR148, “Unresolved UAP Report, East China Sea, 2023”, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 06, and on DVIDS at dvidshub.net as videos 1023403, 1023404, 1023406, 1023408 and 1023410, and 1023405 for PR148.
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-PR143, “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023403
- DOW-UAP-PR144, “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023404
- DOW-UAP-PR148, “Unresolved UAP Report, East China Sea, 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023405
- DOW-UAP-PR150, “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023406
- DOW-UAP-PR151, “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023408
- DOW-UAP-PR152, “Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023410
- Official video descriptions of the six records, 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 3, on four Central Command sensor clips
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 2, on the Pacific clips of 2019
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefings 6 and 7, on the other sensor clips and their mission reports
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 24, on the release as a whole