PACIFIC OCEAN · 2019 [DOW · UAPTF · IR]
WATCH IN UMBRA: all five clips, native playback
WHAT THE FOOTAGE SHOWS
The five clips, DOW-UAP-PR123 through DOW-UAP-PR127, were captured at the same time and fall into two kinds. Three are hand-held recordings of an infrared sensor display aboard a U.S. military platform. In PR123, the longest at just over a minute, an area of contrast appears near the center of the frame, fades, returns, and the sensor pans and zooms to hold it in the reticle for the rest of the clip. PR124 zooms in on the contrast until it loses distinctiveness, and in PR125 it tracks left, fades, and a contrast reappears that the sensor pans to follow. The other two, PR126 and PR127, run about two and a half minutes each and were filmed by a service member with a hand-held camera in low light: the camera pans across the sky, bringing several apparent light sources into and out of frame, and zooms in on one of them.
WHY AARO FLAGS THIS SET
Two caveats come attached. The infrared clips are secondary captures, filmed off a screen, so AARO warns of lower fidelity and the blur or flicker that filming a display adds. And all five carry a note found on only 22 of the 134 PURSUE videos indexed so far: the media was digitally altered before it was reported to AARO, and is presented as it was received. The record does not say what was changed. Read the footage with that in mind, and treat what is on screen as what reached AARO rather than as the original recording.
WHERE IT CAME FROM
These did not come in as a combatant command report. The Navy's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), the body that preceded AARO, held them and transferred them to AARO in 2022. AARO's descriptions stay deliberately flat, reporting what is in frame second by second and stating that nothing in them is a judgment about what the objects were.
WHERE IT SITS IN THE RECORD
Release 05 (August 7, 2026) carried three incident sets of Department of War video: these five Pacific Ocean clips, six from a 2021 Gulf of Oman sighting, and four from the Middle East in 2023 and 2025. Umbra plays every clip with its full AARO description, caveats included.
What are the Pacific Ocean 2019 UAP videos?
Five short Department of War clips, case numbers DOW-UAP-PR123 through DOW-UAP-PR127, released in PURSUE Release 05 on August 7, 2026. They were recorded over the Pacific Ocean in 2019 and transferred to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) by the Navy's UAP Task Force in 2022.
What do the clips show?
Three clips are hand-held recordings of an infrared sensor display: an area of contrast that the sensor pans and zooms to keep near the center of the frame. Two are low-light recordings made with a hand-held camera, panning across apparent light sources and zooming in on one.
Were the videos altered?
AARO says all five were digitally altered before they were reported to it and are presented as received. The record does not describe what was changed.
Why does the footage look rough?
The infrared clips were filmed off a sensor screen rather than exported from the sensor, which lowers resolution and can add blur and flicker. The two camera clips were shot in low light, which AARO notes affects their quality.
Where can I watch all five Pacific Ocean clips?
Umbra, a free iOS reader of the public PURSUE record, plays every clip natively with AARO's full description and source markings, alongside the rest of the Department of War collection.
> All five Pacific Ocean clips, with AARO's full descriptions, on your iPhone.
