Unresolved UAP Report: Middle East, May 2022 (DOW-UAP-PR19)

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D10, described the observation as a “possible missile” moving across the field-of-view. The report also described four other objects not depicted in the video as “possible birds.” Video Description: At the two second mark, the video depicts an area of contrast moving from left to right across the bottom third of the sensor field-of-view. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.

**Released as part of PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026).** The Department of War published the following primary-source records:

- **DOW-UAP-PR19, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, May 2022** (Department of War, 2022-06-15 · Middle East) — 6 pages.

Source integrity: SHA-256 `f9deed9063306b0c…`

*Skeleton import — comprehensive narrative analysis pending. Sources are linked above; OCR-extracted text from the page images is available in the [PURSUE Open Atlas dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alex-zhang42/ufo-pursue-open-atlas) (CC0).*

### From the declassified record

**Excerpted narrative (verbatim, with redactions indicated):**

> (~~SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY~~) AT 0246Z, *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* TOOK OFF FROM *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]*

> AT 0253Z, *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* HANDED OVER WITH THE LRE WITH FULLY MISSION CAPABLE SENSORS.

> AT 0958Z, *[REDACTED — 1.4(a)]* BEGAN SIGINT COLLECTION.

> FROM 0958

*Direct excerpt from the declassified document. Full document linked above.*