DOW-UAP-PR057a, "Spherical UAP in clouds"
On March 6, 2026, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) identified a collection of responsive materials held on a classified network. Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody. AARO assesses that this video, whose uploader-defined title is, “Spherical UAP in clouds,” is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating above the Yellow Sea in January 2023. A user uploaded this video to a classified network in June 2024.Video Duration: 1:10Video Description: 00:00-00:06: No content.00:07-00:08: An area of contrast enters the sensor field-of-view from left and exits near the center of the right side of the frame.00:09-00:20: The sensor pans and cycles zoom levels multiple times.00:21-00:31: An area of contrast enters the frame from the left side of the screen. The area of contrast becomes indistinguishable against the background.00:32-00:34: The sensor zooms in. An area of contrast becomes distinguishable against the background near the center of the frame.00:35-00:52: The sensor pans to track the area of contrast from left to right.00:53-00:56: The sensor zooms in. An area of contrast transits the sensor field-of-view from left to right in the bottom third of the frame. 00:57-01:10: No content.This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.AARO Comment: This media is a duplicate of DOW-UAP-PR57b, alternately titled, “[Platform] observes UAP in East China Sea 05 JAN 2023 INDOPACOM.” This discrepancy exists because two uploaders titled the underlying material differently on a classified network.
Note: war.gov publishes this same release note for all 51 Congressionally-requested DOW-UAP-PR records, so it is not specific to this file. This file's own specifics are in its title above, the video and metadata below, and the original analysis that follows.
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 131 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #9 of 131 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 222-file archive it ranks #10 of 222.
That places it tied with 26 other files at 66 - the densest single-score cluster in the archive, anchored by AARO-submitted military infrared captures.
For the broader cluster context, this file is part of Release 02 Pentagon UAP Videos - the 51-file DOW-UAP-PR050-PR099 series released in PURSUE Release 02 on May 22, 2026. The cluster page walks through all 51 member files with regional grouping, sensor breakdown, and standout analysis.
Anomalousness Index: 66/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
Captured by a single U.S. military sensor platform (typically infrared, occasionally short-wave infrared or dual EO+IR), aboard a mission aircraft or operational platform. Instrumented, time-stamped, and recoverable. Lower than a multi-sensor capture only because cross-modality confirmation is the rubric's higher bar.
Trained U.S. military personnel reporting from an operational mission context. The second-highest credibility tier in the rubric. This is the witness profile shared by the entire AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the 66-point score band.
Single-witness or single-instrument capture. Every file in the PURSUE archive scores at this corroboration tier on the released metadata - the rubric records the honest limit of the underlying record rather than inferring multi-witness corroboration that the released summaries do not establish.
No kinematic measurements - speed, acceleration, vector - are published in the released file with sufficient precision to score on the kinematic axis. The rubric does not infer kinematic anomaly from narrative observer estimates. Every file in the archive carries this value, which is itself an observation about the disclosure: kinematic-grade telemetry was not part of what was released.
A conventional candidate explanation has been considered but is not dispositive. Every file in the archive scores this way - reflecting that the underlying release metadata systematically caveats strong determinations in either direction. The released summaries warn against reading them as conclusive analytical judgments, and the rubric respects that.
Catalogued as unresolved with no formal review process having concluded. This is the AARO baseline disposition for the 27-file score-66 cluster - the reports are logged into the system as unresolved, but no formal review has finalized. The rubric distinguishes this from 'open after review' because the absence of review is itself a status signal.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 66/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
Related files in DoD
Other PURSUE files in the same category, ranked by Anomalousness Index.
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DOW-UAP-PR050, "4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022 over water [CALLSIGN]"
DOW-UAP-PR051, "Syrian UAP instant acceleration"
Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, May 2022
Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, May 2022
Unresolved UAP Report, Syria, July 2022
Verification
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Source (DVIDS): https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007720/dow-uap-pr057a-spherical-uap-clouds
Direct video file: https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111719752/DOD_111719752.mp4