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DOW-UAP-PR29, Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, June 2024

Open Sky release file copy: open the verified 21.8 second MP4. This is the Release 01 video copy for DVIDS ID 1006074; release metadata gives a file size of 15,445,575 bytes and SHA 256 4e1882dcb2a3bd0253a29fce2bb415fdb2f1196e694a3185c31a82e3a8127ba8. Official source page: DVIDS…

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DOW-UAP-PR29, Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, June 2024

Evidence media

  • Open Sky release-file copy: open the verified 21.8-second MP4. This is the Release 01 video copy for DVIDS ID 1006074; release metadata gives a file size of 15,445,575 bytes and SHA-256 4e1882dcb2a3bd0253a29fce2bb415fdb2f1196e694a3185c31a82e3a8127ba8.
  • Official source page: DVIDS video 1006074.
  • Source-alignment context: the publisher description names DoW-UAP-D8, but the currently reviewed D8 page is DOW-UAP-D8, Mission Report, Djibouti, 2025. Its visible text does not obviously match PR29’s Gulf of Oman / United Arab Emirates / June 2024 video description, so the records should remain separate until an authoritative release crosswalk resolves the pairing.

Investigation reading

This draft covers the released DVIDS MP4 for PR29, not a final case finding. I checked the Release 01 metadata, verified the release-file MP4 by byte size and SHA-256, reviewed the video metadata, and made a frame/contact-sheet pass across the full 21.8-second clip at half-second intervals, plus center-crop checks of the area around the tracking symbology.

The source is a short monochrome sensor video over water. It contains overlay symbology, including a central reticle or tracking gate, corner/reference marks, and several orange/red highlight brackets or circles. Those marks are treated here as video or release annotations, not as physical parts of the scene. The clip has an AAC audio stream, but the reviewed copy is effectively silent; the useful source content is visual plus the official publisher description.

The official description says the video was submitted to AARO by United States Northern Command and consists of about 21 seconds of infrared-sensor footage from a U.S. military platform in 2024. It also says an accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D8, described an object with a vertical pole or bar attached underneath, and that the observer reported it might instead be a reflection from an object in the water. This page preserves those claims as source text only.

What the file appears to contain

The visible scene is a grayscale sensor view of water, with wave-texture background and no horizon, land, vessel, aircraft structure, or scale reference visible in the sampled frames. A small bright contrast feature appears repeatedly near the center portion of the sensor field while the reticle/tracking gate remains near the middle of the display.

Across the full-clip frame pass, the feature is usually compact and unresolved: a point-like bright mark, small blob, or short smear. In a few samples it can weakly resemble a rounded bright head with a short lower extension, which is broadly consistent with the official “inverted teardrop” / “vertical trailing mass” wording. That shape is not robust or sharply resolved in the sampled frames, though. It changes with background texture, compression, crop, and overlay position, and several frames are ambiguous.

The feature remains generally near the central sensor field through the clip, sometimes left of the reticle or tracking box and sometimes closer to the center. Because the display itself appears stabilized or tracking, the video alone does not establish whether apparent motion is object motion, sensor motion, background parallax over water, or a combination of those factors. No distance, size, altitude, speed, platform geometry, or target range is available in this MP4.

Source custody and provenance

  • Official title: DOW-UAP-PR29, Unresolved UAP Report, United Arab Emirates, June 2024
  • Agency: Department of War
  • Release: PURSUE Release 01
  • Release/CSV row in video inventory: 87
  • DVIDS ID: 1006074
  • Official DVIDS page: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1006074/dow-uap-pr29-unresolved-uap-report-united-arab-emirates-june-2024
  • Open Sky release-file route: /api/explore/war-gov/release-file/war-gov-dow-uap-pr29-unresolved-uap-report-united-arab-emirates-june-2024-1006074
  • Verified source size: 15,445,575 bytes
  • Verified SHA-256: 4e1882dcb2a3bd0253a29fce2bb415fdb2f1196e694a3185c31a82e3a8127ba8
  • Video metadata: H.264 MP4, 1920x1080, 30 fps, 21.80 seconds, AAC stereo audio stream.

The incident-date field available to Open Sky is N/A; the location field is Gulf of Oman, while the page title uses United Arab Emirates, June 2024. Treat that as source-custody context rather than a resolved geographic conclusion. The official description also names DoW-UAP-D8 as the accompanying mission report, but the separately reviewed D8 PDF page in this release is titled Djibouti, 2025 and its visible text does not obviously match the PR29 video description. That pairing should be checked against the authoritative release manifest before any cross-page analysis.

Graph context

The graph has an exact VideoEvidence record for DVIDS 1006074 and an exact Release 01 Document record for the WAR.GOV row. The video record carries the canonical DVIDS URL, DVIDS short URL, Gulf of Oman location field, N/A incident date, and the verified MP4 hash. The exact release-record node appears with a record-84-current-row canonical anchor while the video inventory points to CSV row 87; that row-number tension is an audit lead, not a substantive evidence claim.

Semantic extraction currently shows 17 source-text claims, 11 entity mentions, 0 sensor-event nodes, and 0 table rows. The zero sensor-event count means the semantic graph did not materialize separate sensor-event records for this MP4; it does not mean the video lacks sensor imagery. Extracted claim groups mostly repeat the official description: AARO/Department of War/DVIDS identity, the Gulf of Oman and United Arab Emirates location terms, the 2024/2026 date terms, the DOW-UAP-PR29 and DoW-UAP-D8 identifiers, the object-description sentence, and the water-reflection lead.

Related graph edges point to nearby Release 01 material, including DOW-UAP-D23 / PR26 and PR33. Candidate crosslinks to broader UAE or public-source material are phrase matches only and should remain navigation cues unless a reviewer verifies shared dates, locations, sensor context, and source custody.

Leads to check

  • Reconcile the PR29 video title/location/date fields: United Arab Emirates, June 2024, Gulf of Oman, and N/A incident date.
  • Confirm whether DoW-UAP-D8 is truly the accompanying mission report for this MP4, because the currently reviewed D8 PDF title/text appears misaligned with PR29’s Gulf of Oman / June 2024 video description.
  • If the original sensor metadata exists, check platform geometry, range, track mode, zoom state, stabilization state, and whether the central reticle/tracking gate followed the feature or the background.
  • Treat the “reflection from an object in the water” sentence as an explicit prosaic/source lead. Follow-up should include water-surface glint/reflection checks, vessel/object-in-water possibilities, sensor gain/contrast behavior, and environmental conditions.
  • Compare the released MP4 with any unannotated or less-compressed source video if available; the visible shape is too small and overlay-affected to support structure claims from this release copy alone.

Lead check notes

  • Checked — The Open Sky release-file MP4 verifies to 15,445,575 bytes and SHA-256 4e1882dcb2a3bd0253a29fce2bb415fdb2f1196e694a3185c31a82e3a8127ba8, matching the Release 01 video inventory for DVIDS ID 1006074.
  • Partial — The available Release 01 records preserve a title/location/date tension: the video title says United Arab Emirates, June 2024, the inventory/graph location field says Gulf of Oman, and the incident-date field is N/A. That is provenance/custody context, not a resolved geographic or date correction.
  • Partial — The official PR29 description says the accompanying mission report was DoW-UAP-D8, but the reviewed D8 PDF page is titled Djibouti, 2025; its visible page-7 text concerns 2X ROUND WHITE HOT UAPS, DYNAMIC SOUTH, approximately 240NM/HOUR, and grid-like string 35SQT3423692957. That does not visibly match PR29’s Gulf of Oman / United Arab Emirates / June 2024 video description, so D8 remains a source-alignment lead rather than confirmed companion evidence for this video.
  • Blocked — The released MP4 and publisher description do not provide platform identity, range, field of view, zoom state, track mode, stabilization state, azimuth/elevation, or unredacted coordinates. Apparent motion in the display cannot be converted into object motion without that source material.
  • Needs external source — The observer-reported possibility that the feature was a reflection from an object in the water remains a source-backed prosaic lead. Testing it requires source time/location/geometry plus environmental, maritime/airspace, sensor-gain, and water-surface context not present in the public MP4.
  • Partial — The reviewed MP4 supports only cautious visual language: a small unresolved bright contrast feature over water, sometimes weakly compatible with the publisher’s “inverted teardrop” wording but not stable or detailed enough to support structure claims. A less-compressed or unannotated source video would be needed for stronger shape review.

Limits

This MP4 is short, lacks range and scale context, and shows an unresolved contrast feature over water. The video does not provide enough information to infer size, distance, speed, altitude, propulsion, material, or origin. Overlay marks and release highlight circles are not scene evidence. The official “inverted teardrop” description is preserved as source wording, but the frame review here treats the feature as unresolved and only weakly/ambiguously shape-like in some samples.

This page is a graph investigation draft for source review. It does not identify the object, reject the witness/operator report, or assert any hypothesis as resolved.

Deep investigation — graph + web reconnaissance

Source reread and media check

The verified Release 01 MP4 remains 15,445,575 bytes with SHA-256 4e1882dcb2a3bd0253a29fce2bb415fdb2f1196e694a3185c31a82e3a8127ba8. The public DVIDS page is live and identifies the item as video ID 1006074, filename DOD_111688964, VIRIN 240602-D-D0360-1039, category B-Roll, length 00:00:21, Date Taken 06.01.2024, Date Posted 05.08.2026 07:47, location code AE, and courtesy source All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The CloudFront MP4 endpoint responded to a byte-range check with 206 Partial Content and Content-Range: bytes 0-15/15445575, matching the cached release-file size.

A renewed full-frame and center-crop contact-sheet review still supports only cautious visual language. The scene is a monochrome/IR-looking maritime sensor view with wave texture, black redaction or display masks, and cyan/orange sensor or release overlays. The feature of interest remains a tiny bright spot or short blob near the central reticle/tracking area. Some samples weakly suggest a point, dash, comma, or teardrop-like impression, but the feature is only a few pixels across and is confounded by sea clutter, sensor point-spread, compression, stabilization/tracking jitter, and overlay placement. The video alone does not support a reliable shape, size, altitude, speed, material, propulsion, or origin claim.

Graph connections and extraction status

Read-only graph checks find an exact VideoEvidence node for DVIDS 1006074 and a Release 01 row-record Document for DOW-UAP-PR29. The video node preserves the canonical DVIDS page, DVIDS short URL, MP4 URL, Gulf of Oman location field, N/A incident-date field, 15,445,575-byte MP4 length, and the verified MP4 hash. The row-record side still carries manifest hygiene tension: the video inventory lists row 87, while the graph row-record anchor appears as release record 84 and some related/candidate edges retain nearby PR26/PR33 context. Those edges are treated as provenance-audit leads, not corroborating evidence.

The semantic layer for the exact video asset contains 17 machine-extracted Claim nodes and 11 EntityMention nodes, with 0 separate SensorEvent nodes and 0 table rows. The extracted material preserves source text about DOW-UAP-PR29, AARO / Department of War / DVIDS, Gulf of Oman, United Arab Emirates, 2024, 2026, the DoW-UAP-D8 companion-report statement, and the water-reflection lead. These graph claims remain machine_extracted_needs_human_review / not_a_finding; they are source-text inventory, not analytical conclusions.

The named DoW-UAP-D8 pairing remains unresolved. The reviewed D8 source page is a separate Djibouti 2025 MISREP whose visible page-7 text concerns 2X ROUND WHITE HOT UAPS, dynamic south motion, approximately 240NM/HOUR, and grid-like string 35SQT3423692957. Those visible D8 anchors do not obviously match PR29's Gulf of Oman / United Arab Emirates video description, vertical-pole/bar language, or water-reflection lead. Until an authoritative release crosswalk reconciles the rows, D8 should remain a source-alignment lead rather than confirmed companion evidence for this MP4.

External provenance and prosaic checks

Official-source web checks reached the DVIDS page and the MP4 byte-range endpoint. Direct WAR.GOV/PURSUE landing-page and CSV probes returned 403 Forbidden, and Internet Archive availability probes returned rate limits during this check; those access results do not invalidate the verified release-file copy or the live DVIDS page, but they leave the authoritative row-crosswalk problem open.

The source itself gives the strongest prosaic lead: the observer reportedly said the feature may instead be a reflection from an object in the water. Testing that requires the unreleased platform track, sensor mode, field of view, range, azimuth/elevation, stabilization/track state, exact time, weather, sea state, vessel/object-in-water context, and any less-compressed or unannotated source video. With only a broad DVIDS Date Taken (06.01.2024), AE/Gulf-of-Oman-style location metadata, and no exact time or geometry, astronomy/weather/launch/satellite correlation is not yet meaningful. A narrow graph check for 2024-06-01 found one NASA CNEOS fireball far from the Gulf of Oman coordinate region, no same-date modeled LaunchEvent, no matching Gulf/Oman weather rows, and zero Satellite nodes in the current graph; those are coverage limits, not exclusions.

Limits and follow-up leads

This deep check strengthens the custody and graph-audit picture but does not resolve the event. Priority follow-up is to reconcile the PR29/D8 row pairing, obtain any underlying mission report or AARO case packet that actually matches the PR29 video, locate source sensor metadata or raw FMV, and test the water-reflection/surface-object lane before treating the tiny contrast feature as anomalous.

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