A 2024 U.S. Central Command report submitted to AARO describes a 1 minute 5 second multi-sensor observation of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) during a military platform mission (DoW-UAP-D7).
The object was reported as diamond-shaped and moving at roughly 434 knots, and was only consistently detectable using a short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensor.
In the footage, an area of contrast first appears around 4 seconds, prompting the operator to switch to SWIR-only view at about 10 seconds for better tracking. The object remains centered through most of the observation period and is visually described as an inverted teardrop shape with a vertical trailing feature. At around 56 seconds, switching to visible light causes the object to disappear, and it is not reacquired despite returning to SWIR mode by the end of the clip.
Overall, the report documents a fast-moving, sensor-dependent detection that was intermittently trackable depending on imaging mode, without providing a confirmed identification of what the object was.
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