PR39 - Undisclosed Location 2020 [Farsi Island]
5/10
solid newsworthy item
UAP Insight significance score
- Author
- flarkey
- Published
- May 13, 2026
- Event date
- 2020-01-01
- Location
- Middle East
- Witnesses
- Military
- Object type
- infrared anomaly
UFO Reports from the US Military and Government
Original excerpt
This is not a great video... https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1006089/dow-uap-pr39-unresolved-uap-report-middle-east-2020 UNDISCLOSED LOCATION 01.01.2020 The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in…
Key claims
- →CENTCOM submitted UAP report to AARO in January 2020
- →Video footage captured from infrared sensor on U.S. military platform
- →Analyst notes the video quality is not good for analysis
- →Five seconds of footage total
UAP Insight Analysis— AI generated, not official
A Metabunk analysis of a 2020 Department of Defense infrared video from the Middle East showing a five-second UAP clip submitted to AARO; the analysis suggests the video quality is poor and insufficient for definitive conclusions.
Alternative explanation
Poor video quality and limited footage make definitive identification difficult.
Analysis by Claude · may contain errors
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