Video · 25 January 2024

DOW-UAP-PR028 — Greece, January 2024: the “diamond-shaped” object seen only in short-wave infrared

Department of War / AARO (DVIDS) · 25 January 2024 · 1 min · Watch the original

One minute five seconds of multi-sensor footage from a U.S. military platform near Greece in January 2024, submitted by CENTCOM to AARO and released as PR028 in PURSUE release 01. The paired mission report is the Greece report of 25 January 2024 (D025); AARO's description cites it as “DoW-UAP-D7”, which in the PURSUE catalogue is an Arabian Gulf report of 2020.

Source: Department of War / AARO, PURSUE, via DVIDS. Moments follow AARO's timecoded description, checked against the frames; no relevant audio.

Key moments

  1. 0:00 For the first ten seconds the screen is split: short-wave infrared (SWIR) on the left, the electro-optical camera with clouds on the right (AARO).
  2. 0:04 An area of contrast becomes distinguishable at the centre of the right-hand frame; at 0:10 the display switches to full-screen SWIR to follow it (AARO).
  3. 0:55 AARO: the object “visually resembles an inverted teardrop with a vertically linear trailing mass suspended below”. The mission report calls it “diamond-shaped”, moving at about 434 knots, and detectable only in SWIR.
  4. 0:56 The operator switches to the visible spectrum and loses it against the background; back in SWIR from 0:57 the sensor does not find it again (AARO).

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