CENTCOM area of responsibility (exact location undisclosed).Middle East · a clip of “three objects” that shows two

This four-minute clip, cataloged as DOW-UAP-PR079, is part of the 50-video batch AARO located on a classified network while responding to the request eight members of the House of Representatives filed on March 6, 2026 for access to 51 potentially UAP-related records. AARO warns, in the record for the whole batch, that many of these materials lack a substantiated chain of custody.

The title the clip is known by, "29 October 2020 [CALLSIGN] (Mission) observes 3 fast moving UAP's," was defined, according to AARO's assessment, by whoever uploaded the file to the classified network in October 2020; it is not a Department of War designation. AARO assesses as likely, without confirming, that the video derives from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating in U.S. Central Command's (CENTCOM) area of responsibility in October 2020.

AARO's official timestamped visual description does not confirm three simultaneous objects. It records that the sensor tracks an area of contrast between seconds 2 and 22; zooms in between 23 and 28; zooms out while tracking an area of contrast between 29 and 1:01; that at 1:02 a second area of contrast enters from the upper left quarter of the screen and both stay in view for about 15 seconds; and that the sensor then tracks the second while the first exits at the bottom (1:18 to 1:41), with the second area generally within the center of the sensor field of view.

The 1:42 to 1:58 segment is described as having "no content"; between 1:59 and 2:58 the sensor again tracks an area of contrast, which grows increasingly indistinct against the background, and the description does not say whether it is one of the earlier ones or a third; and the 2:59 to 4:00 segment is again "no content" while the sensor cycles its zoom level.

The description therefore documents at most two simultaneous areas of contrast, not three, and about a third of the clip, some 77 of its 240 seconds, is segments with no content. AARO never calls what the sensor tracks an object: it always describes it as an area of contrast.

DVIDS classifies it as B-roll, with October 29, 2020 as the date taken and an undisclosed location. AARO specifies that its description is provided for informational purposes only and should not be read as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion or factual determination about the validity, nature or significance of the event described. The DVIDS record has no coordinates, platform identification or crew statement. The material was uploaded to DVIDS on May 22, 2026, as part of PURSUE's second release, under a public domain license.

The title speaks of three fast-moving objects; AARO's official description records only two areas of contrast at a time, for about 15 seconds, and the title was not given by the Department of War but by whoever uploaded the video to the classified network. AARO's description includes neither distance nor speed for what is seen. According to AARO, the video was uploaded to the classified network in October 2020, the same month it was taken, and it does not say who uploaded it.

No source proposes what the areas of contrast were. AARO warns that its description is not an analytical judgment, and no Metabunk or other analysis of this clip was found. In its fiscal year 2024 report, AARO finalized 174 cases, all as conventional objects (balloons, birds, drones, satellites and aircraft), and added that many other cases remain unresolved: the figure is the rate among resolved cases, not among all cases.