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DOW-UAP-PR23, Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, December 2022

Official DVIDS page: DOW UAP PR23, Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, December 2022 Open Sky release file copy: open/play the verified MP4 Paired mission report: DOW UAP D18, Mission Report, Iraq, December 2022

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DOW-UAP-PR23, Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, December 2022

Evidence media

The MP4 link opens the verified Open Sky release-file copy of the official DVIDS video. It should be read as a short grayscale/IR-style sensor exhibit: black masking blocks and cyan symbology are display/release elements, and the small contrast feature remains unresolved without source telemetry and collection geometry.

Investigation reading

This item is the short DVIDS video record paired with the D18 Iraq mission report. DVIDS lists it as Video ID 1006062, VIRIN 221201-D-D0360-5883, Date Taken 12.01.2022, Location IQ, Category B-Roll, and Length 00:00:10. The verified MP4 decodes as a 5,300,653-byte H.264 file at 1920 × 1080, 30 fps, 322 frames, and approximately 10.73 seconds. It carries an AAC audio stream, but audio-level inspection found near-silence; there is no useful spoken transcript in the reviewed media.

The official description says United States Central Command submitted ten seconds of infrared footage from a U.S. military platform to AARO. It also says the accompanying D18 mission report described the object as “flying west to east.” The DVIDS video description characterizes the visible subject only as an “area of contrast” moving from the bottom left toward the top right of the sensor field of view and leaving near the top-right corner at about six seconds. That language should be preserved as publisher description, not treated as an identification or a completed analysis.

What the file appears to contain

The visible scene is a grayscale infrared-style aerial sensor view over a dense urban area: flat-roofed buildings, walled lots, alleys, roads, rooftop features, vegetation-like patches, and vehicle-like shapes are visible. The frame also contains non-scene display and release elements: large black masking/redaction blocks near the frame edges, cyan sensor symbology including a central reticle and bracket markers, and a cyan N orientation marker. Those overlays should not be confused with objects in the ground scene.

Frame sampling across the whole clip and additional checks around the six-second point show a tiny unresolved contrast feature moving relative to the mostly stable urban background. The feature is only a few pixels across in the released video and is difficult to separate from compression, thermal contrast, rooftop clutter, and sensor-display artifacts in still frames. In the sampled frames it is visible in the early and middle part of the clip, appears near the right half of the image around the six-second sample, and is no longer distinguishable as a separate feature by roughly 6.5 to 7 seconds. This is broadly consistent with the DVIDS statement that the contrast area leaves the sensor field at about six seconds, but the released clip does not by itself provide range, altitude, size, or speed.

The source should therefore be read as a short sensor-video exhibit accompanying a text report. It is not a full telemetry package, not a map, and not a source that independently resolves what the contrast feature was.

Source custody and provenance

Graph context

Open Sky models this item as VideoEvidence for DVIDS video 1006062, with related official release-record documents and a linked D18 mission-report asset. The graph currently preserves 18 extracted claim records, 9 entity mentions, 0 extracted sensor-event records, and 0 table rows for this video record. Those counts reflect the DVIDS/manifest description chunks rather than a frame-by-frame sensor analysis.

The most important graph relationship is the pairing to DOW-UAP-D18, Mission Report, Iraq, December 2022. The D18 PDF supplies the mission-report context: a possible UAP/UAV line at 011620:00ZDEC22, west-to-east movement language, no pursuit, no further events observed, no reported effects on persons, and no populated object speed/altitude/trajectory field. The video page should not inherit every D18 form prompt as video evidence; the video itself shows a short grayscale sensor view and the DVIDS description.

No candidate crosslinks are currently attached to this PR23 video record. Related-record links to D18 and other Release 01 videos are navigation context, not findings.

Leads to check

  • Compare the PR23 motion path against the D18 UAP line using frame-by-frame review with any released timestamp/sensor overlays; do not convert screen direction into world direction without platform orientation, sensor look angle, and georegistration.
  • Reconcile release-row numbering for the PR23 video across the release metadata, current CSV record, and graph record variants before using a row number as a citation anchor.
  • Check whether any lawful full-resolution source, telemetry-bearing version, or mission-system export exists beyond the public DVIDS MP4.
  • Run normal prosaic/context checks once geometry is available: platform motion and stabilization, parallax against the urban background, ordinary aircraft/UAV activity, ground traffic, thermal contrast, weather/illumination, and sensor/compression artifacts.
  • Keep the D18 PDF and PR23 MP4 linked but distinct: the PDF provides report text; the MP4 provides the released visual exhibit.

Lead check notes

  • Checked — media custody: release metadata and the Open Sky release-file copy agree on DVIDS video 1006062 / DOD_111688809, a 5,300,653-byte MP4 with SHA-256 d6a177a7004837546b8e3ea12ad0e632d9c31eabca427e05ae6eb9d4e4493f47.
  • Partial — PR23/D18 motion comparison: DVIDS describes an area of contrast moving bottom-left to top-right in the sensor field, while the paired D18 report describes west-to-east movement. The public MP4 does not provide enough platform orientation, sensor look angle, georegistration, range, or altitude data to convert screen motion into real-world motion.
  • Partial — release-row reconciliation: release metadata associates the video with rows 39 and 83, while the current graph release-record context surfaces row 80; treat row numbers as provenance-cleanup anchors until the current WAR.GOV CSV and graph records are reconciled.
  • Blocked — fuller source package: the reviewed public sources expose the DVIDS MP4 and the paired D18 PDF, but not a telemetry-bearing mission export, raw sensor product, precise collection geometry, or adjacent-source frame set.
  • Needs external source — prosaic/context checks: ordinary aircraft/UAV, ground-traffic/parallax, weather/illumination, and sensor/compression explanations need exact geometry, timing, and environmental data beyond the released MP4.

Limits

This draft does not identify the contrast feature and does not resolve the event. The public MP4 lacks range, altitude, speed, sensor mode details beyond the publisher’s infrared description, precise location, raw telemetry, and independent corroborating sensor data. Redaction/masking blocks and display symbology obscure parts of the frame. The feature is small and unresolved in the released video, so apparent shape or size should not be inferred from the MP4 alone. DVIDS itself cautions that the video description is informational and should not be read as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination.

Deep investigation — graph + web reconnaissance

Source reread

The verified MP4 remains the primary source for this page: a 5,300,653-byte DVIDS video file with SHA-256 d6a177a7004837546b8e3ea12ad0e632d9c31eabca427e05ae6eb9d4e4493f47. The official DVIDS page was reachable for this review and lists Video ID 1006062, VIRIN 221201-D-D0360-5883, filename DOD_111688809, date taken 12.01.2022, date posted 05.07.2026 23:30, location IQ, category B-Roll, length 00:00:10, and courtesy unit All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The DVIDS-hosted MP4 endpoint also reported the same 5,300,653-byte length.

The DVIDS description should stay source-attributed. It says U.S. Central Command submitted ten seconds of infrared-sensor footage from a U.S. military platform to AARO, cites the paired D18 mission report's “flying west to east” wording, and separately describes an “area of contrast” moving from the lower-left toward the upper-right of the sensor field of view before leaving near the top-right corner at about six seconds. That is publisher description, not an identification or a measured trajectory.

Visual media check

A fresh review of official DVIDS thumbnail frames shows the same broad source content described earlier: a grayscale aerial/sensor view over dense urban blocks, roads, flat roofs, vehicle-like shapes, cyan/teal reticle and marker symbology, a cyan N marker, and multiple black masking/redaction blocks around the frame. A small dark contrast feature is visible in the scene, but the thumbnails and released MP4 do not support object identification or estimates of range, altitude, size, speed, or real-world direction.

This visual check reinforces the separation between screen motion and world motion. DVIDS describes movement within the sensor image; D18 supplies the west-to-east report text. Without platform heading, sensor look angle, stabilization details, range, and georegistration, those two descriptions cannot be converted into a reliable ground track from public material alone.

Graph connections reviewed

Read-only graph review confirms one official VideoEvidence node for DVIDS 1006062, two manifest-description text chunks, 18 machine-extracted claim nodes, 9 entity mentions, 0 PR23 sensor-event nodes, and 0 candidate crosslinks. The extracted claims are all marked machine-review/not-a-finding style material and mostly preserve source metadata, document IDs, Iraq, AARO/Department of War/DVIDS, the D18 pairing, the west-to-east wording, the lower-left-to-upper-right publisher description, and DVIDS's own caution that the description is not an analytical judgment.

The strongest graph relationship is the paired DOW-UAP-D18 mission report. That PDF contributes the report context: initial contact 011620:00ZDEC22, one possible UAP/UAV, west-to-east wording, no pursuit, no further events observed, UAP Signatures: No, and no populated UAP altitude/depth/velocity/trajectory field. D18 does have machine sensor-event records, but the source-backed terms are FMV, AIRHANDLER/SIGINT mission context, and the separate PR23 video exhibit; equipment-form prompts and blank/dash fields should not be counted as radar/RF/IR corroboration.

The graph also preserves a row/provenance cleanup lead. The PR23 video node carries related rows 39 and 83, while a current release-record node for PR23 appears at row 80; the row-83 record currently names DOW-UAP-PR28. Treat that as manifest/graph reconciliation work, not as evidence that PR23 and PR28 are analytically connected.

External provenance and context

Official DVIDS was the successful canonical web source in this pass: the page, HLS playlist, MP4 endpoint, and thumbnail frames were reachable. WAR.GOV landing/CSV probes returned 403 Access Denied, and Defense.gov/AARO search probes for the DVIDS identifier also returned 403; those access results are custody/context notes rather than blockers because the official DVIDS source and verified Open Sky release-file copy agree on the video identity and bytes. Internet Archive CDX probes for the exact DVIDS page and MP4 endpoint timed out in this run, so they remain follow-up provenance leads rather than supporting citations here.

Graph-side context checks are limited by the public source. The graph has AstronomyEvent, WeatherEvent, and LaunchEvent coverage and no populated Satellite nodes, but PR23/D18 do not release enough unredacted location, look geometry, platform track, range, or sensor orientation to perform a meaningful sky/satellite/weather correlation. A broad exact-date launch probe surfaced coarse SpaceX launch rows with 2022-12-01T00:00:00.000Z placeholder-style timestamps and U.S. launch sites; those are not PR23 correlations.

Prosaic checks and blockers

The first prosaic lanes remain source-internal: platform/sensor motion and stabilization, parallax over the urban scene, rooftop or road thermal contrast, ordinary aircraft/UAV or ground activity, compression/resampling artifacts, black mask/overlay effects, and the D18 report's own UAP/UAV wording. Page 5 of D18 says weather was not a factor, but the public packet does not provide an independent weather reconstruction or enough geometry to test that statement externally.

The unresolved blockers are precise collection location, platform path, heading, sensor mode/FOV, look angle, range, raw telemetry, any full-resolution mission export, and a lawful way to compare the video frames to air-traffic, UAS, ground-traffic, weather, illumination, satellite/reentry, or launch context. Until those are available, PR23 should remain a paired video exhibit plus source-provenance record, not a resolved case.

Follow-up leads

  • Reconcile PR23 row references 39, 80, and 83 against the current official CSV, graph release records, and D18/PR23 pairing.
  • Seek any lawful full-resolution or telemetry-bearing source package behind DVIDS DOD_111688809 before estimating size, speed, altitude, or trajectory.
  • If geometry is ever released, compare the DVIDS lower-left-to-upper-right image motion against D18's west-to-east wording with platform orientation and sensor look angle in hand.
  • Preserve the PR23/D18 separation: PR23 is the released visual exhibit; D18 is the text mission-report context.

Audit note

This section adds source, graph, media, and web provenance checks only. It does not create a finding, hypothesis, or resolution decision; machine-extracted graph claims remain unreviewed leads unless they are explicitly verified against the DVIDS page, the MP4, or the paired D18 source text.

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