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DOW-UAP-PR28, Unresolved UAP Report, Greece, January 2024

Browser playable Open Sky release file MP4: open the official Release 01 video copy. Official source page: DVIDS video 1006073. The release file copy is a 1920 x 1080 MP4, about 66 seconds at 30 fps. It presents the split EO/SWIR display, full screen SWIR interval, brief visible…

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DOW-UAP-PR28, Unresolved UAP Report, Greece, January 2024

Evidence media

  • Browser-playable Open Sky release-file MP4: open the official Release 01 video copy.
  • Official source page: DVIDS video 1006073.
  • The release-file copy is a 1920 x 1080 MP4, about 66 seconds at 30 fps. It presents the split EO/SWIR display, full-screen SWIR interval, brief visible-spectrum switch, and later SWIR black-hot attempt described by the publisher; redaction masks and display symbology are release/display elements, not scene content.

Investigation reading

This item is a released DVIDS MP4, not a PDF report or still-image container. The Open Sky release-file copy was checked against Release 01 metadata: it is 15992674 bytes and matches SHA-256 9aa868828e0b7be178604162a8abc1e11f0ee6e27d9c48eabbee4d032a50fd72. The media metadata reads as a 1920 x 1080 video at 30 fps with an approximately 66.0-second duration; the publisher description calls it one minute and five seconds of footage.

The review covered the release metadata, the graph's exact VideoEvidence and release-record context, the publisher description, a full-clip contact sheet, central crops around the high-signal 00:45 to 00:57 interval, and post-switch crops from 00:57 to 01:05. There is no separate OCR transcript for this video in the release context; the text preserved in the graph is the official DVIDS/WAR.GOV description, not an independent transcript.

The public reading should stay narrow. The video shows a sensor-display sequence with a small contrast feature, modality changes, display overlays, and redaction masks. This draft preserves what is visible and what the release text says, but it does not identify the feature or decide whether the reported event is anomalous.

What the file appears to contain

The first roughly ten seconds are presented as a split-screen sensor view. The two halves show the same general cloud field with different contrast/gain, matching the official description that one side is electro-optical and the other SWIR. Orange display symbology crosses both halves, including a central reticle and bracket-like markers. Black rectangular blocks obscure telemetry or display fields and should be treated as release masks, not scene content.

After about 00:10, the video shifts to a full-screen single-mode sensor feed. The scene is mostly cloud, haze, and low-contrast background texture with gray side margins and the same orange reticle/symbology. A small bright point or compact contrast feature is visible intermittently near the central reticle region. In central crops from about 00:45 to 00:56, the feature appears as a bright white point/blob that shifts relative to the reticle and becomes closest to the reticle around 00:55.5 to 00:56.0. In the sampled frames it is not resolved into a definite body, wing, plume, tail, or other identifiable structure.

The official description says that near 00:55 the contrast area remains generally near the center and visually resembles an inverted teardrop with a vertically linear trailing mass. The sampled still/crop review supports the presence of a compact bright feature near the reticle, but the crop at 00:55 does not by itself resolve a reliable teardrop or trailing structure. A black mask lies immediately beside the feature in that interval, so any shape-language should remain tied to the official description unless a frame-by-frame video analyst confirms it from the moving footage.

Around 00:56 to 00:57, the video switches modality. A tiny bright speck is still visible near the crosshair in the 00:56 frame, but it is not clearly enough resolved to say it is the same subject. From 00:57 through 01:05, the background changes to flatter/grainier post-switch imagery. Small specks and texture appear in some frames, but the earlier bright central feature is not clearly reacquired in the sampled sequence.

The publisher description says an accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D7, described the UAP as diamond-shaped, moving at approximately 434 knots, and visible only via SWIR. Separately, the Release 01 corpus includes DOW-UAP-D25, Mission Report, Greece, January 2024, which preserves the same Greece/January 2024 SWIR-only, approximately 434-knot description. That mismatch should be handled as a pairing/provenance lead until the official row mapping is reconciled.

Source custody and provenance

The graph's release-record context currently points to a WAR.GOV Release 01 record while the video inventory row is 86; this page treats row numbering and mission-report pairing as source-custody items to reconcile, not as evidence of a second event.

Graph context

Open Sky models this item as an official primary-source VideoEvidence record plus a Release 01 record. The semantic graph currently has 22 extracted source-text claims, 11 entity mentions, 4 sensor-event records, and 0 table rows for this video page.

The sensor-event records are all SWIR-related and come from the official description: the observer's reported SWIR-only detectability, the initial split electro-optical/SWIR presentation, the switch to full-screen SWIR, and the later SWIR black-hot attempt after the visible-spectrum switch. These are useful navigation entries, but they are not independent telemetry, radar tracks, or a completed sensor analysis.

The graph context also contains nearby Release 01 relationships and location/keyword-style crosslinks. Those links should be used as leads only. The source-backed content for this video is the DVIDS MP4 and its official description; any relationship to a mission-report PDF must be confirmed through the release rows and file contents before the video is used as paired evidence for that report.

Leads to check

  • Reconcile the mission-report pairing. The PR28 description names DoW-UAP-D7, while the Release 01 corpus contains a Greece/January 2024 DOW-UAP-D25 mission report with matching SWIR-only, 434-knot, diamond/probe-tail language.
  • Do a frame-by-frame media review around 00:50 to 00:57 before adopting the official teardrop/trailing-mass wording as visual description. The sampled crops show a compact unresolved bright feature, but not enough structure for identification.
  • Confirm the exact modality sequence from source metadata if available: split electro-optical/SWIR, full-screen SWIR, visible-spectrum switch, then SWIR black-hot reacquisition attempt.
  • If the paired mission report is confirmed, use its time/location fields for prosaic checks: aircraft traffic, satellite/space-object visibility, launches/reentries, weather, marine activity, and SWIR/processing artifacts. Without that pairing, this video record alone lacks a precise public time/location.
  • Review whether small post-switch specks are scene content, sensor noise, compression artifacts, or overlay/mask interactions before treating any of them as reacquisition.

Lead check notes

  • Partial — Mission-report pairing: the PR28 source description names DoW-UAP-D7, while the reviewed DOW-UAP-D25 page preserves the matching Greece/January 2024 SWIR-only, approximately 434-knot, round-diamond/tail/probe language. That supports a concrete reconciliation lead, but the D7/D25 mismatch still needs an authoritative release-record or mission-report correction before the pairing is treated as resolved.
  • Partial — 00:50 to 00:57 visual wording: the source-media samples reviewed for this draft show a compact unresolved bright feature near the reticle before the modality switch. The official inverted-teardrop/trailing-mass description remains source text; it should not be promoted as an independently confirmed visual morphology without frame-by-frame review.
  • Checked — Modality sequence: the publisher description and reviewed video sequence support split electro-optical/SWIR presentation for roughly the first ten seconds, full-screen SWIR after 00:10, a visible-spectrum switch around 00:56, and SWIR black-hot from 00:57 to 01:05 without clear reacquisition in sampled frames.
  • Blocked — Ordinary context checks: this video page does not expose exact public time, platform geometry, range, altitude, or unredacted coordinates. If D25 is confirmed as the paired mission report, its 250509:00ZJAN24/0509Z-0511Z and partial MGRS fields can seed prosaic checks, but unredacted geometry or another authoritative source is still needed.
  • Partial — Post-switch specks: small specks and texture are visible after the modality switch, but the current source review does not establish whether they are scene content, sensor noise, compression artifacts, or overlay/mask interactions. Treat them as review leads, not reacquisition.

Deep investigation — graph + web reconnaissance

Source-video reread and media boundary

A deeper pass keeps PR28 in the released-video evidence category. The checked MP4 remains 15992674 bytes, SHA-256 9aa868828e0b7be178604162a8abc1e11f0ee6e27d9c48eabbee4d032a50fd72, 1920 x 1080, 30 fps, and about 66 seconds. A public release-file range request and the DVIDS-hosted MP4 both return the expected MP4 header/ftyp bytes and byte total, so the page is grounded in the actual released video rather than only the manifest description.

Representative frame review confirms the broad official sequence but keeps the morphology bounded. The first ten seconds show a split display over cloud/haze with different contrast between the two panels. After about 00:10, the display shifts to a full-screen sensor view with the central reticle, orange symbology, gray side margins, and black release/display masks. Between roughly 00:45 and 00:56, a small bright point-like contrast feature is visible near or left of the reticle at several samples; near 00:55.5 to 00:56 it approaches the reticle/black-mask area. The samples support a compact unresolved feature, but they do not independently resolve a reliable inverted-teardrop body, tail, plume, scale, or object class.

The modality change is the key visual limit. Around 00:56.5 to 00:57, the display changes abruptly to flatter low-contrast imagery, and the pre-switch bright feature is not clearly reacquired in the sampled post-switch frames. Later frames show blue/teal and then higher-contrast textured background views with reticle and mask overlays, but no discrete compact feature can be confidently matched to the pre-switch point from the public MP4 alone.

Graph connections and extraction quality

Read-only graph checks match two stable records for this item: a Release 01 row record and an official VideoEvidence node for DVIDS 1006073. The video node carries the canonical DVIDS URL, the CloudFront MP4 URL, the 15992674-byte download size, the same SHA-256, and related Release 01 video row 86. The Release 01 row record currently appears as row 83 in graph custody, while this page and video inventory use row 86; that is a row/indexing reconciliation lead, not a separate event.

The semantic layer for the video has 22 machine-extracted Claim nodes, 11 EntityMention nodes, 4 SensorEvent nodes, and 2 text chunks preserving the official description/manifest text. The four sensor-event nodes are all SWIR-description cues: SWIR-only detectability, split EO/SWIR presentation, full-screen SWIR focus, and the later SWIR black-hot attempt. They remain machine_extracted_needs_human_review / not_a_finding; they are not independent radar, telemetry, track-file, or forensic sensor conclusions.

Graph/text matching also clarifies the pairing problem. The PR28 official description says an accompanying mission report DoW-UAP-D7 described a diamond-shaped UAP moving approximately 434 knots and visible only on SWIR. But the current Release 01 DOW-UAP-D7 page is an Arabian Gulf 2020 balloon-like/winds-at-31,000-feet MISREP, while DOW-UAP-D25, Mission Report, Greece, January 2024 is the source page that preserves the matching Greece/January 2024 0509Z-0511Z, SWIR-only, approximately 434 KNOTS, round-diamond/probe-tail language. Treat PR28↔D25 as a strong provenance lead and the D7 text as an official-description mismatch until a corrected release record or agency statement resolves it.

Official web reconnaissance and provenance context

The official DVIDS page was reachable during this check. It identifies the title DOW-UAP-PR28, Unresolved UAP Report, Greece, January 2024, video ID 1006073, date taken 01.01.2024, date posted 05.07.2026 23:32, VIRIN 240102-D-D0360-7887, filename DOD_111688954, length 00:01:06, location GR, category B-Roll, and All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office courtesy/source attribution. Its description is the same source text quoted in this page: split EO/SWIR display, full-screen SWIR, visible-spectrum switch, and failed SWIR black-hot reacquisition.

Direct WAR.GOV Release 01 landing-page and CSV fetches returned HTTP 403 from the current host, so the working public anchors here are the official DVIDS page, the DVIDS MP4/range response, the Open Sky release-file copy, and the graph/source custody records. The DVIDS Date Taken/VIRIN date cues, the PR28 description's generic 2024 wording, the PR28 DoW-UAP-D7 reference, and the D25 250509:00ZJAN24 mission-report timing remain provenance fields to reconcile before using PR28 as the final visual counterpart to a specific MISREP.

Prosaic checks, follow-up leads, and limits

The public video alone does not expose a precise observation time, unredacted location, platform track, range, altitude, look angle, field of view, target-pod settings, or raw sensor metadata. Because of that, astronomy, weather, launch/reentry, satellite, aircraft, marine, balloon, bird/debris, and sensor-artifact checks cannot be completed responsibly from PR28 alone. The local graph has astronomy/weather/launch context labels, but without a confirmed date/time/geometry for the video, graph no-results would be coverage limits rather than exclusions.

The first grounded follow-up is provenance: reconcile the PR28 official description against D7 and D25, then compare the MP4 timing with D25's 0509Z-0511Z window only if an authoritative pairing is established. The first technical follow-up is sensor/display analysis: separate scene content from redaction masks, orange symbology, automatic gain/contrast changes, modality/palette changes, compression, and platform/sensor motion before adopting shape, trailing-mass, continuity, or speed claims from the public video frames.

Audit status: this section adds source reread, read-only graph context, official-web provenance, and prosaic-check boundaries only. It does not create a finding, hypothesis, or resolution decision, and the page remains needs_human_review / not_a_finding.

Limits

This page does not resolve the event. The public MP4 is redacted and display-masked, and it does not expose full telemetry, platform identity, exact location, exact time, range, altitude, calibration data, or raw sensor metadata. The video record has no separate transcript or OCR body in the archive context.

The sampled visual review supports this human-readable public draft, but it is not a full forensic video analysis. The central feature remains an unresolved contrast feature in this public draft. The official publisher text itself says the description should not be read as an analytical judgment or factual determination about the event's nature or significance.

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