United States.Tyndall · two infrared clips their uploader labeled “tic tac”

On March 6, 2026, eight members of the House of Representatives formally requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the intelligence community. In response, AARO identified a collection of materials existing on a classified network, and explicitly warned, in the record for each of the resulting 50 videos, that "many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody." These two clips, cataloged as DOW-UAP-PR066 and PR065, are part of that batch.

The clips' titles are "USCG C-144 Tyndall UAP 1 TIC TAC IR hot 24 April 2024" (PR066) and "USCG C-144 Tyndall UAP 2 TIC TAC IR hot 24 April 2024" (PR065). Per AARO's own assessment, each is an "uploader-defined title": assigned by whoever uploaded the video to the classified network in June 2024, not by the Department of War or AARO. The agency only assesses it as "likely" that the footage derives from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. Coast Guard platform operating in the Southeastern United States in 2024. The DVIDS page gives April 24, 2024 as the date taken, lists the location only as "US" and files the clip under "B-Roll" (supplementary footage).

AARO's timestamped visual description attached to each clip speaks only of "areas of contrast" and describes no silhouette. For PR066 (48 s): between seconds 9 and 15, "an area of contrast appears from the upper right side of the screen; the sensor does not pan to track it, causing it to leave the field-of-view on the left side of the frame"; between seconds 33 and 48, "an area of contrast enters the field-of-view from the lower right side of the screen and leaves the field-of-view on the lower left side of the screen; the sensor pans to the left, but is unable to track it."

In those two stretches the sensor does not track the area of contrast. For PR065 (38 s), the description says that between seconds 0 and 32 the sensor pans to keep an area of contrast in its field of view; at second 33 it pans left and the area leaves the field of view on the right side of the frame. AARO adds that its description should not be read as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion or factual determination about the nature of the event.

The material was uploaded to the public DVIDS portal on May 22, 2026, in PURSUE's second drop, made up entirely of this batch of 50 videos from a classified network. No intelligence report, crew statement or coordinates were published with the clips: only the footage, AARO's provenance assessment and the visual description quoted above.

The title "TIC TAC IR hot" echoes the 2004 Nimitz case. But an unidentified person wrote it upon uploading the file to a classified network in 2024, and AARO only assesses, without confirming, where the images came from. Its description mentions no shape, size or distance for the object: only areas of contrast that the sensor loses in one clip and tracks for much of the other.

No source proposes an identification, and no independent analysis of these two clips has been found. That absence is no argument against an ordinary cause: in its 2024 annual report, AARO resolved 118 cases, all of them conventional objects such as balloons, birds and drones, and closed another 174 as balloons, birds, drones, satellites and aircraft. Added to that is the uncertainty about the source: there is no substantiated chain of custody and no platform confirmation, and the label "tic tac" is the reading of whoever uploaded the file, not a sensor finding or an AARO conclusion.