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DOW-UAP-PR43, Unresolved UAP Report, Africa, 2025

This draft treats PR43 as a short public DVIDS video release, not as an adjudicated case file. The review covers the official DVIDS page, Release 01 metadata, the Open Sky release file MP4, graph context, and sampled frames from the verified public MP4 copy.

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DOW-UAP-PR43, Unresolved UAP Report, Africa, 2025

Investigation reading

This draft treats PR43 as a short public DVIDS video release, not as an adjudicated case file. The review covers the official DVIDS page, Release 01 metadata, the Open Sky release-file MP4, graph context, and sampled frames from the verified public MP4 copy.

The public MP4 is 9,089,058 bytes with SHA-256 1847cfc831b0a2299b070c958234a1679ebc719489a0eabe032b667eac65588f. The decoded video stream is H.264, 1920 × 1080, about 29.97 fps, 352 frames, and 11.745 seconds long. The DVIDS page lists the video length as 00:00:11; the official description says the underlying footage is two seconds and that the release video is looped for viewing purposes. Frame samples at two-second intervals repeat the same scene phases, consistent with that looped-release note. An AAC stereo audio stream is present in the file, but decoded samples were silent in the reviewed copy.

DVIDS metadata lists: Date Taken 01.01.2025, Date Posted 05.08.2026 07:50, category B-Roll, Video ID 1006159, VIRIN 250101-D-D0360-6307, filename DOD_111689759, and location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION). Release 01 metadata separately associates the record with incident location Djibouti and incident date N/A.

Evidence media

Derived PR43 full-frame contact sheet from the official MP4

Derived full-frame review sheet sampled from the looped public MP4.

Derived PR43 central-field contact sheet from the official MP4

Derived central-field review sheet from the same verified MP4. It is a source-review aid only; it does not resolve the small low-contrast feature.

The Open Sky release-file copy is the public DVIDS MP4 DOD_111689759: 9,089,058 bytes, SHA-256 1847cfc831b0a2299b070c958234a1679ebc719489a0eabe032b667eac65588f, H.264 1920 × 1080 video, and about 11.745 seconds long. DVIDS describes the underlying footage as two seconds of infrared-sensor video looped for viewing and states that the reporter provided no oral or written description of the observation.

The source description should stay attached to its caution: DVIDS says the description is informational only and should not be read as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about the event.

What the file appears to contain

The official description states that United States Africa Command submitted an AARO report consisting of two seconds of infrared-sensor video from a U.S. military platform in 2025. It also states that the reporter did not provide an oral or written description of the observation.

The visible MP4 shows a monochrome, infrared-looking aerial/sensor view over dry, textured terrain. The frame includes fixed display elements and masks: a large dark curved mask across the upper-left/top portion of the image, black rectangular masked blocks along the edges and lower-right area, a cyan central reticle, small cyan markers, and a cyan N marker. These overlays and masks should be separated from the scene itself.

In sampled frames from the first two seconds, a very small, low-contrast feature is at most faintly discernible against ground texture. The official description says a small, barely distinguishable area of contrast moves from left to right and exits from the bottom-right quarter of the screen. The reviewed frames are broadly consistent with a tiny contrast area being difficult to follow across the scene, but the feature is extremely small relative to the frame and not cleanly separable from terrain texture, haze, compression, sensor noise, and overlay/mask interference. The lower-right exit area is partly obscured by black rectangular masking.

The public video alone does not establish object type, size, range, altitude, speed, independent motion, or cause. Apparent motion could include feature motion, sensor/platform motion, stabilization, parallax, compression behavior, or scene drift. The safe public reading is: this is a looped public MP4 showing a tiny unresolved contrast feature described by the official source, with no reporter narrative and no analytic conclusion in the source text.

Source custody and provenance

The DVIDS description explicitly says the video description is informational only and should not be interpreted as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about validity, nature, or significance. That caveat is part of the source custody for this item and should remain attached to any downstream use.

Graph context

Open Sky currently models this item as an official VideoEvidence record plus a Release 01 Document record. The exact video record is official:video:war-pursue-uap-release:dvids-1006159; the release-record document points back to the WAR.GOV Release 01 source and the DVIDS video.

The semantic extraction for this item is narrow: 8 extracted claims, 6 entity mentions, 0 extracted sensor-event records, and 0 table rows. The claim examples are mostly document identity, agency references, date/year references, and the official cautionary language. The absence of a separate graph sensor-event record does not mean the MP4 lacks sensor imagery; it means no independent structured sensor-event node was materialized from this short source record.

Graph neighbor context links PR43 to DOW-UAP-PR40, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020 and to a Release 01 document titled DOW-UAP-PR46, Unresolved UAP Report, INDOPACOM, 2024. Those are navigation/context edges only in this draft. They are not corroboration and do not resolve PR43.

Leads to check

  • Reconcile DVIDS displayed location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) with the Release 01 metadata location Djibouti before using the location analytically.
  • Obtain the original, non-looped sensor export or frame sequence if available; the public MP4 is a looped release copy.
  • Seek platform, sensor, field-of-view, stabilization, range, altitude, and line-of-sight metadata before estimating motion or scale.
  • Look for any AFRICOM, AARO, or accompanying mission-report material that provides the missing reporter narrative, collection context, or reason the item was submitted.
  • Compare PR43 with PR40 and PR46 only as source-family/context leads unless a specific shared time, platform, location, or collection chain is documented.
  • Ordinary-context checks such as aircraft, drones, birds, ground vehicles, reflections, sensor artifacts, weather, satellites, launches, or reentries require a real time window and coordinates; those are not present in the public page.

Lead check notes

  • Partial — location/provenance. DVIDS displays the location as (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION), while Release 01 metadata associates the record with Djibouti. The public source material does not expose exact coordinates or the basis for that location mapping, so the location remains a provenance lead before analytical use.
  • Blocked — original sensor export and reporter narrative. DVIDS describes two seconds of infrared-sensor footage and says the reporter did not provide an oral or written description; the release-file copy is an 11.745-second looped MP4. The non-looped original, adjacent frames, source export, platform log, and mission-report context are not present in the public release-file copy.
  • Blocked — sensor and geometry metadata. The public MP4/DVIDS metadata do not provide platform identity, sensor mode, field of view, stabilization, range, altitude, precise time window, or line of sight. Motion, scale, speed, and range estimates should stay off the page unless a source with that geometry is obtained.
  • Partial — related-record comparison. Current graph and wiki context place PR43 near PR40 and PR46 as release-family/navigation context. No candidate crosslinks or shared time, platform, location, or collection chain were documented in the checked context, so those links are not corroboration.
  • Needs external source — ordinary-context checks. Aircraft, drone, bird, ground-vehicle, reflection, sensor-artifact, weather, satellite, launch, or reentry checks require exact time, coordinates, viewing geometry, and preferably the original sensor data.

Deep investigation — graph + web reconnaissance

Source reread and media check

PR43 remains a short DVIDS/Release 01 video record, not a complete case file or adjudicated event. The live DVIDS page for Video ID 1006159 returned the title DOW-UAP-PR43, Unresolved UAP Report, Africa, 2025 and metadata matching the Release 01 page: Date Taken 01.01.2025, Date Posted 05.08.2026 07:50, category B-Roll, VIRIN 250101-D-D0360-6307, filename DOD_111689759, length 00:00:11, location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION), and courtesy credit to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The same page says United States Africa Command submitted two seconds of infrared-sensor footage from a U.S. military platform in 2025, that the reporter provided no oral or written description, and that the video is looped for viewing.

The public MP4 identity remains stable: the Open Sky release-file copy and the DVIDS CloudFront media URL resolve to a 9,089,058-byte MP4 whose SHA-256 is 1847cfc831b0a2299b070c958234a1679ebc719489a0eabe032b667eac65588f; a fresh range check on the CloudFront MP4 returned 206 with Content-Range: bytes 0-2047/9089058 and an MP4 ftyp header. Frame reread of the first two seconds and whole clip shows a monochrome/infrared-looking aerial sensor view over textured terrain, a large black curved top-left mask, black edge/lower-right mask blocks, and cyan reticle/marker overlays. The official left-to-right/lower-right-exit wording should stay source-attributed: the sampled frames show at most a tiny, very low-contrast feature that is difficult to separate from terrain texture, haze, compression, sensor noise, and overlay/mask interference. The public video does not support object type, distance, speed, altitude, size, propulsion, or independent-motion estimates.

Graph connections and extraction limits

Read-only graph checks found the exact VideoEvidence asset official:video:war-pursue-uap-release:dvids-1006159, ingested from the WAR.GOV/PURSUE Release 01 source, with related CSV row 100, DVIDS URLs, the CloudFront MP4 URL, and the same full-download hash/byte count. The graph also has a Release 01 Document row record for PR43 anchored at current row 97, but that row record still carries some stale PR40 final-URL/cache-title fields while its title, DVIDS ID, location, and description text identify PR43. Treat that as a provenance-cleanup lead, not a second source or corroborating event.

Semantic coverage is narrow: 8 machine-extracted Claim nodes, 6 EntityMention nodes, 0 SensorEvent nodes, and 0 table rows for the PR43 video asset. The extracted claims are mostly source identity, organizations, year references, and the publisher caveat; the caveat is also miscast by one extraction as witness-testimony-style text. Those graph claims remain machine_extracted_needs_human_review / not_a_finding unless checked against the DVIDS/source text. No CANDIDATE_CROSSLINK records were found for this asset. Neighbor links to PR40/PR46 are release-family or manifest-navigation context only unless a specific shared time, platform, location, or collection chain is later documented.

External provenance and official-source checks

The canonical DVIDS page and the short DVIDS URL are live and resolve to the PR43 page. The Internet Archive availability API also reports a DVIDS page snapshot at 20260517141432 and a WAR.GOV/PURSUE landing snapshot at 20260519012013, which are useful custody leads if the live pages later change. Direct WAR.GOV landing and CSV fetches returned 403 during this check, while the already-ingested Release 01 source record preserves the official CSV row text and prior official-source provenance. AARO and Defense.gov search probes for the DVIDS ID also returned 403 from this environment; no separate public mission report, reporter narrative, or raw sensor export surfaced in the bounded official-source check.

Prosaic checks and open questions

Prosaic correlation is blocked, not resolved. The public record gives N/A as the incident date, DVIDS displays (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION), Release 01 metadata says Djibouti, and the page does not provide exact time, coordinates, platform identity, sensor model/FOV, stabilization state, look angle, range, altitude, or source frame sequence. Weather, astronomy, launch, satellite, aircraft, drone, bird, ground-vehicle, reflection, and sensor/display-artifact checks would be false precision until that geometry exists. The strongest immediate ordinary-context lane is therefore source/video handling itself: looped release copy, masks/overlays, compression, terrain clutter, sensor noise, parallax, stabilization, and display-processing artifacts.

Follow-up leads and audit status

Priority follow-up is to obtain the non-looped original sensor export or adjacent frames; any AFRICOM/AARO mission-report packet or reporter narrative; platform/sensor/line-of-sight metadata; and exact date/time/location context for weather, traffic, satellite, launch, and reentry checks. Also reconcile the DVIDS (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) vs Release 01 Djibouti location tension and the graph row-record stale PR40 URL/title fields. This deep-investigation note preserves source custody and graph/audit context only; it does not create a finding, hypothesis, or resolution decision.

Limits

This page is an investigation draft, not a finding. The released source provides a short looped video and official descriptive/cautionary text, but no witness statement, no transcript, no map, no platform telemetry, no range data, no unredacted location, no raw sensor export, and no analysis package. The visible contrast feature is too small and too low-contrast in the public MP4 to identify or quantify.

The page should not be used to claim anomalous behavior, prosaic identification, speed, altitude, dimensions, propulsion, or intent. It preserves the source, verified media identity, graph context, and review leads for a later human analyst.

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