Incident · 1996 – 2026 · United States and coastal waters
U.S. military UAP reports over and near the United States (1996–2026)
Also known as NORTHCOM UAP reports, East Coast UAP videos, domestic UAP reports
The PURSUE releases include about twenty U.S. military videos from over the United States and its coastal waters, most of them reported through Northern Command: aircraft and sensor footage off the East Coast and in the Atlantic from 2015 to 2020, the Gulf of America in 2019, the western United States, Columbus in Ohio, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, an F/A-18 and a "fifth generation aircraft" in 2022–23, and a 2026 Army report. The oldest, from 1996, came from the Navy's UAP Task Force.
Most are short infrared clips of a single point of contrast, described by AARO without assessment. Two carry the pilots' own range-fouler reports, which pull in opposite directions: one observer with 28 years in the Air Force and Navy had never seen such flight characteristics, while another compared the object to a large deformed balloon drifting with the wind.
The Lake Huron shoot-down of February 2023 and the Coast Guard "Tic Tac" of April 2024 have their own entries.
Sources: PURSUE records listed below (war.gov/UFO)
Facts and claims
- documented A Range Fouler Debrief (D090) with a 2019 East Coast video says the object showed “flight characteristics unlike anything [the observer] had seen in 28 years [of service] for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy”, “small” and “travelling in a straight line [in the] opposite direction at high speed”. Source: DOW-UAP-PR112 — Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2019
- documented Another Range Fouler Debrief (D091), for a 2020 Atlantic video, describes a “darker, maroonish color” object “approximately 12-15 feet in height” that was “travel[ing] with the wind”, did not “maneuver or change direction”, and looked like a “large, somewhat deformed balloon”. Source: DOW-UAP-PR116 — Unresolved UAP Report, Atlantic Ocean, 2020
- documented An intelligence information report of November 2022 was uploaded with its video as “Several Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Encountered In The Vicinity of Columbus OH”; in it a second object enters the frame and is lost behind a redacted part of the display (AARO). Source: DOW-UAP-PR073 — IIR 1 655 S0053 23/Several Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Encountered In The Vicinity of Columbus OH
- documented Another, of February 2023, was uploaded as “Eglin AFB Aircrew Observed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) on 13 Feb 23”. Source: DOW-UAP-PR070 — IIR 1 655 S0301 23/Eglin AFB Aircrew Observed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) on 13 Feb 23
- documented Two of the clips, from 1996 and 2015, came from the Navy's UAP Task Force, which AARO notes predates any “formal data handling practices for UAP-related records”; both were digitally altered before they were reported. Source: DOW-UAP-PR113 — Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 1996
Connected files
Official records (PURSUE)
- DOW-UAP-PR045 — Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR049 — Unresolved UAP Report, Department of the Army, 2026 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR068 — IIR 1 666 S0151 23/Video Footage of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) captured by fifth generation aircraft on 20 Jan 23 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR069 — F/A-18 FLIR UAP (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR070 — IIR 1 655 S0301 23/Eglin AFB Aircrew Observed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) on 13 Feb 23 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR073 — IIR 1 655 S0053 23/Several Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Encountered In The Vicinity of Columbus OH (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR086 — UAP from Dec 2019 (East Coast) (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR106 — Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR107 — Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR108 — Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 2020 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR109 — Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2015 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR110 — Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR111 — Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR112 — Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2019 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR113 — Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 1996 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR114 — Unresolved UAP Report, Atlantic Ocean, 2016 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR115 — Unresolved UAP Report, Gulf of America, 2019 (documented in)
- DOW-UAP-PR116 — Unresolved UAP Report, Atlantic Ocean, 2020 (documented in)
Videos
- DOW-UAP-PR073 — Columbus, Ohio, November 2022: “Several Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon” (discussed in)
- DOW-UAP-PR112 — Eastern United States, 2019: “unlike anything … in 28 years” (discussed in)
- DOW-UAP-PR116 — Atlantic Ocean, 2020: “a large, somewhat deformed balloon” (discussed in)
Mentioned in this file
- PURSUE — Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (Program)
- Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (Program)
- USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” encounter (Incident)
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Program)