DOW SENSOR · CENTCOM [IR SENSOR]
WATCH IN UMBRA — PURSUE sensor footage, native playback
SENSOR FOOTAGE
The headline material is video. Each clip carried in this part of the catalog was assessed by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as "likely derived from an electro-optical and/or infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform." The descriptions are deliberately restrained. They track an "area of contrast" that enters and exits the field of view as the sensor pans and zooms — nothing more is claimed. Every clip carries the same disclaimer: the description is for informational purposes only and is not an analytical judgment. Umbra preserves that framing intact, so what you watch and what you read stay faithful to the released record rather than a sensational gloss.
MISSION REPORTS
Alongside the video sits a body of documents — mission reports filed across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. The app indexes reports from the Arabian Gulf (2020, multiple), the wider Middle East (May 2022), Iraq (May 2022, December 2022, and 2023), Syria (July 2022 and February 2023), and Djibouti (2025). A historical outlier reaches back further still: "UAP Reported at Sandia Base, 1948–1950." Read together, the documents and the footage give the same incidents two registers — the watched and the written.
HOW AARO DESCRIBES IT
These materials surfaced after a March 6, 2026 request by eight U.S. House members for 51 potentially UAP-related records. AARO identified responsive materials on a classified network, and many of them lack a substantiated chain-of-custody — a caveat the app surfaces rather than hides. The careful, neutral language throughout is the point. An object is "an area of contrast," not a confirmed craft. Umbra is an unofficial, independent reader of what was released under PURSUE; it does not editorialize over AARO's wording, and neither should you.
ACROSS EVERY THEATER
Geographically, the footage and reports span the CENTCOM area of responsibility (2020–2023), the Yellow Sea and East China Sea under INDOPACOM (including a January 2023 clip catalogued as "Spherical UAP in clouds"), and the EUCOM AOR (2022). Theaters referenced run from Iraq, Syria, and the Arabian Gulf to the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and Djibouti, touching CENTCOM, INDOPACOM, EUCOM, and AFRICOM. Download Umbra to browse every theater in one place, watch the sensor clips with their original disclaimers, and read the mission reports side by side.
- DOW-UAP-PR23Sensor footage, CENTCOM AOR, Iraq, December 2022 — an "area of contrast" tracked across the frame as the sensor pans.
- DOW-UAP-PR57"Spherical UAP in clouds," Yellow Sea / East China Sea, INDOPACOM, January 2023.
- DOW-UAP-D003Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020.
- DOW-UAP-D016Mission Report, Syria, July 2022.
- DOW-UAP-D008Mission Report, Djibouti, 2025.
- DOW-UAP-D017UAP Reported at Sandia Base, 1948–1950 — the historical outlier in the tranche.
> The bulk of the PURSUE record, in your pocket — footage and reports, read exactly as released.
