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DOW-UAP-PR47, Unresolved UAP Report, INDOPACOM, 2023

Open Sky release file MP4: DOW UAP PR47, Unresolved UAP Report, INDOPACOM, 2023 Official DVIDS video page

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DOW-UAP-PR47, Unresolved UAP Report, INDOPACOM, 2023

Evidence media

The verified Open Sky release-file copy is a 15,963,093-byte MP4 with SHA-256 5d4d87441b6ed4527bfd563900b1534817a751d7897e03e1c61b51b46b95a610. It is a 1920×1080 H.264 public video, about 119.67 seconds long at 30 fps; the audio stream is effectively silent. The public record supplies the MP4 and publisher description, but not the original sensor export, platform geometry, range/range-rate data, or a separate oral/written observer statement.

Investigation reading

This draft treats PR47 as a video-only Release 01 source. The reviewed public file is a 15,963,093-byte MP4 with SHA-256 5d4d87441b6ed4527bfd563900b1534817a751d7897e03e1c61b51b46b95a610. The video metadata reads as H.264, 1920 × 1080, 30 fps, about 119.67 seconds long. An AAC audio stream is present but effectively silent; the source page and release text provide no reporter narration or written observer statement beyond the published description.

The DVIDS page identifies the item as DOW-UAP-PR47, Unresolved UAP Report, INDOPACOM, 2023, Video ID 1006107, VIRIN 230102-D-D0360-7088, Date Taken 01.01.2023, Date Posted 05.08.2026 07:50, category B-Roll, and location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION). The Release 01 record location field says Japan, while the incident-date field remains N/A.

Frame review covered the full public runtime with regular samples across the clip and closer center-crop checks around the reticle. The review found a consistent gray infrared-style sensor display, fixed central crosshair/reticle graphics, stable black masking or interface shapes, and a small clustered contrast feature near the reticle for most of the clip. This page does not identify the feature or decide whether the apparent motion is object motion, platform/sensor motion, stabilization, compression, display behavior, or some combination of those factors.

What the file appears to contain

The official description says INDOPACOM submitted a UAP report to AARO consisting of one minute and fifty-nine seconds of infrared-sensor video from a U.S. military platform in 2023. It also says the reporter did not provide an oral or written observation description. The official video description covers the whole runtime: 00:00-01:59, stating that the sensor tracks three distinct areas of contrast, generally near the frame center, and that the contrast areas appear to keep a fixed position and orientation relative to one another.

In the public MP4, the scene is low-context: a mostly gray image field with central reticle lines, a red ring near the center, and repeated black edge or interface masks. A compact bright/dark contrast cluster becomes visible near the upper central reticle region after the opening seconds, remains close to the reticle area through most samples, and appears closer to the central ring in late samples. The feature often presents as two or three adjacent bright lobes or patches with nearby darker contrast. The public copy does not provide range, range rate, platform track, field-of-view settings, stabilization metadata, unredacted sensor symbology, or an original sensor export.

The large black blocks and repeated side shapes are treated here as masking/interface or release-display elements, not scene objects. The colored crosshair and red ring are also display overlays. The only source-backed visual statement for this draft is that the public video shows a recurring unresolved contrast cluster near a stable reticle presentation, consistent with the official description's wording about multiple contrast areas.

Source custody and provenance

  • Official DVIDS page: DOW-UAP-PR47, Unresolved UAP Report, INDOPACOM, 2023
  • Open Sky release-file copy: MP4 release file
  • Agency in Release 01: Department of War
  • Source kind: public DVIDS MP4, not the raw sensor export
  • DVIDS ID: 1006107
  • VIRIN: 230102-D-D0360-7088
  • Release row listed for the video source: 104
  • File size: 15,963,093 bytes
  • SHA-256: 5d4d87441b6ed4527bfd563900b1534817a751d7897e03e1c61b51b46b95a610

Two provenance tensions should remain visible for review. First, the public DVIDS page gives (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION), while the Release 01 record gives Japan. Second, the video source is associated with release row 104, while a companion release-record graph node carries a current-row anchor around 101; this looks like row/indexing drift to reconcile rather than a substantive content conflict.

Graph context

The graph has an exact VideoEvidence record for DVIDS 1006107 and a companion Release 01 record document. The semantic layer currently lists 10 extracted claims, 8 entity mentions, 0 extracted sensor events, and 0 table rows for this item. The extracted entities are mainly source and agency labels: AARO, Department of War, INDOPACOM, and DVIDS. With no sensor-event records, the graph is not presenting independent radar, telemetry, or platform-track evidence for PR47; it is preserving the release description and video provenance.

The graph also shows navigation links to PR44 and FBI Photo A1. Those links are not treated here as corroboration or as evidence that the items depict the same event. They are review leads only, useful for checking whether Release 01 metadata, row numbering, or contrast-feature language is being reused across unrelated source records.

Leads to check

  • Compare the public DVIDS MP4 against any higher-fidelity source export, if one becomes available, before measuring motion, size, speed, separation, or formation geometry.
  • Reconcile DVIDS (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) with the Release 01 Japan location field and identify whether Japan came from a separate manifest field, command reporting channel, or later release metadata.
  • Reconcile the release-row/current-row numbering around PR47 so future graph links do not point to the wrong neighboring record.
  • Check whether the Date Taken value 01.01.2023 is an exact collection date or a placeholder-style DVIDS date.
  • Review adjacent INDOPACOM/Japan Release 01 videos or reports for shared metadata, platform context, or repeated contrast-feature descriptions without assuming they are the same event.
  • Ordinary-context checks would require the missing time, coordinates, platform geometry, pointing direction, weather, air/maritime traffic, and satellite/launch/reentry context.

Lead check notes

  • Checked — Media/source identity: the Open Sky release-file copy verifies as DVIDS 1006107 / VIRIN 230102-D-D0360-7088, 15,963,093 bytes, SHA-256 5d4d87441b6ed4527bfd563900b1534817a751d7897e03e1c61b51b46b95a610; the source page and release-file link point to the same public MP4 record.
  • Partial — Location chain: DVIDS lists (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION), while Release 01 metadata uses Japan. The current public record does not expose coordinates, platform track, pointing direction, or collection geometry to reconcile that field.
  • Partial — Date field: DVIDS lists Date Taken 01.01.2023 and VIRIN 230102-D-D0360-7088; the public source does not establish whether 01.01.2023 is the exact collection date, a publication metadata convention, or a placeholder-style DVIDS value.
  • Partial — Row/provenance numbering: the video source metadata lists related CSV row 104, while the companion release-record graph node is anchored near current row 101. Treat this as release-record cleanup, not a content finding.
  • Partial — Adjacent-record review: available graph/public-page context links PR47 to PR44 and FBI Photo A1 as catalog/navigation leads. Those records differ in theater, year, media type, and source posture, so the links do not establish a shared event, platform, object, or corroboration.
  • Blocked — Higher-fidelity video analysis: measuring motion, separation, formation geometry, range, speed, or scale requires the original or less-compressed sensor export, unredacted display metadata, platform/sensor motion, field-of-view settings, calibration, and range/range-rate data.
  • Needs external source — Ordinary-context checks: weather, air/maritime traffic, satellite/launch/reentry context, drones, balloons, birds, debris, glare, stabilization behavior, compression, or display-artifact checks require exact time, coordinates, line of sight, and platform geometry not present in the released MP4.

Deep investigation — graph + web reconnaissance

Source and media reread

The source remains a video-only public release, not a complete incident file. The verified Open Sky release-file copy is a 15,963,093-byte MP4 with SHA-256 5d4d87441b6ed4527bfd563900b1534817a751d7897e03e1c61b51b46b95a610. The live DVIDS page was reachable during this check and preserved the same public identity fields: Video ID 1006107, VIRIN 230102-D-D0360-7088, title DOW-UAP-PR47, Unresolved UAP Report, INDOPACOM, 2023, date-taken/date-posted fields visible on the page, and location (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION). The direct public MP4 object also answered a byte-range request with bytes 0-31/15963093 and MP4 ftyp magic.

A fresh representative frame reread supports the earlier source posture. The public frames show a mostly gray infrared-style display with a persistent reticle/crosshair, cyan bracket-like markings, a red central ring, black masks or interface blocks, and a small bright high-contrast feature visible in several sampled frames near or around the central reticle region. The masks, reticle graphics, brackets, and display framing are treated as overlay/display elements, not scene objects. The small bright feature should remain described only as an unresolved visible contrast feature; the public copy does not establish range, speed, altitude, scale, sensor-relative motion, independent object motion, or object type.

Graph connections and extraction quality

The graph has an exact VideoEvidence record for official:video:war-pursue-uap-release:dvids-1006107 and a companion Release 01 manifest Document record. The exact video node preserves the canonical DVIDS URL, related CSV row [104], incident date N/A, and incident location Japan; the companion release-record node is anchored near current row 101. That row split is a provenance/indexing cleanup lead, not a content conflict by itself.

Semantic graph coverage is narrow: 10 machine-extracted Claim nodes and 8 EntityMention nodes are present for the exact video asset, with 0 SensorEvent nodes and 0 returned CANDIDATE_CROSSLINK edges. The extracted claims are marked machine_extracted_needs_human_review / not_a_finding and mostly preserve source identity and publisher-description facts: AARO, Department of War, INDOPACOM, DVIDS, DOW-UAP-PR47, the 2023/2026 date cues, the 59 seconds duration phrase, and the publisher's caution that the description is not an analytical judgment. They are useful provenance and navigation aids, not independent corroboration.

Graph navigation links to PR44 and FBI Photo A1 remain review leads only. PR44 is a different DVIDS video page in the same broad Release 01 video family, and FBI Photo A1 is a still-image record with separate source posture. Neither link should be read as showing a shared event, platform, object, or corroborating observation without source-level alignment.

External provenance and official-source checks

Official-source custody is strongest at DVIDS for this item: the public DVIDS page returned 200, and the public media object returned the expected partial-content response for the 15,963,093-byte MP4. WAR.GOV/PURSUE landing and CSV probes returned 403 during this check; that is an access/custody limitation rather than a contradiction, because the DVIDS page and cached Open Sky release-file copy agree on the public video identity and hash baseline.

No companion mission report, reporter narrative, raw sensor export, platform log, unredacted metadata strip, range/range-rate source, sensor model/settings sheet, or AARO analytical packet surfaced in this graph-and-web pass. The DVIDS (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) field and Release 01 Japan location field therefore remain a provenance question rather than a resolved geography.

Prosaic checks and open questions

The public source does not expose exact collection time, coordinates, platform track, line of sight, sensor mode, field of view, range, range rate, stabilization state, weather, traffic, or environmental context. Because of that, astronomy, weather, launch, satellite/reentry, drone, balloon, bird, debris, aircraft, or maritime checks cannot yet be meaningful exclusions.

The first ordinary-context lanes to preserve are sensor/display behavior, stabilization or tracking mode, compression and scaling, mask/overlay effects, glare or vignetting, gain/focus changes, and platform/sensor motion. Those lanes require original or less-compressed sensor material plus geometry; the public MP4 alone is insufficient.

Audit note

This section adds source-grounded graph and web reconnaissance only. It does not identify the visible feature, convert machine extractions into findings, or assert a resolution. PR47 remains a verified public MP4 record with unresolved source-context gaps.

Limits

This is a public-copy video review, not an adjudication. The source does not include the reporter's oral or written description, a mission report, an unredacted platform track, sensor calibration, range/range-rate data, exact time of day, coordinates, weather, or original sensor metadata. The visual field has few environmental anchors. The official description itself warns that the description should not be read as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination. This page keeps the same posture: graph_investigation_draft, needs_human_review, and not_a_finding.

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