Anomaly Ledger

Yellow Sea IR Contrast — DOW-UAP-PR150

INDOPACOM forwards ~57 seconds of 2023 IR showing a tracked contrast patch and focus box — informational only, unresolved.

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Sources DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR150 (Yellow Sea 2023); war.gov/UFO; EarthSky on PURSUE batch 6 (20 Sep 2026)

On 18 September 2026, DVIDS posted DOW-UAP-PR150 as part of the Department of Defense’s sixth PURSUE UAP release: roughly fifty-seven seconds of infrared footage from a 2023 Yellow Sea collection, submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to AARO.

What the caption allows

Public DVIDS copy describes a tracked area of contrast and an on-screen focus box as the sensor works the scene. The Department’s framing is deliberately thin: the clip is informational, not an analytical judgment of nature or origin. EarthSky’s batch-6 overview places PR150 alongside other unresolved military sensor products and historical media redistributed the same day.

Archivist’s margin

Same disciplinary template as the CENTCOM spheres file, different ocean and morphology. A contrast patch with a focus box is a sensor workflow, not a species. This ledger marks the case open: unresolved in the government’s own language, cited from DVIDS and war.gov, with no claim that the Yellow Sea returns are craft, balloons, or birds.

Evidence ledger

Each claim in this file, the source it rests on, and how well it holds up: 3 corroborated · 2 unverified · 1 debunked. What the labels mean.

ClaimSourceType · dateStatus
DVIDS posted DOW-UAP-PR150 on 18 Sep 2026: ~57 s of 2023 Yellow Sea infrared submitted by INDOPACOM to AARO.DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR150; EarthSky batch-6 summary (20 Sep)official · 18 Sep 2026corroborated
The footage shows a tracked area of contrast with an on-screen focus box.DVIDS captionofficial · 18 Sep 2026corroborated
The release includes an official judgment of the object's nature or origin.DVIDS caption (‘informational’, not an analytical judgment)official · 18 Sep 2026debunked
The contrast patch is a craft, balloon or bird.No source in this fileledger analysisunverified
The clip was still live on DVIDS with its caption unchanged as of 21 Sep.DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR150 re-checkofficial · 21 Sep 2026corroborated
PR150 carries a larger permanent redaction footprint (~22% of frame) than the other Release 06 military EO clips (~10%).Single outlet; not re-measured by this ledger.The Exclusion Zone frame measurement of DVIDS filessecondary · 12 Oct 2026unverified

Updates

  1. Update

    Primary confirm: DOW-UAP-PR150 (~57s INDOPACOM Yellow Sea IR, 2023) remains live on DVIDS from PURSUE batch 6. Informational-only caption and focus-box display framing unchanged; no new analytical judgment located this watch.

    Sources DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR150 · EarthSky PURSUE batch-6 summary

  2. Update

    An independent measurement shows PR150 is the most heavily redacted military clip in Release 06. On 12 Oct 2026 the analysis site The Exclusion Zone published frame measurements of all fifteen Release 06 videos. It pulled them from DVIDS, using the department's own file catalogue to find the IDs. Among the ten military electro-optical clips, nine have nearly the same redaction footprint. Solid black boxes permanently cover about 9.5 to 11.5 percent of the frame (median 10.3 percent), sitting where sensor telemetry such as coordinates, heading, field of view and platform ID would be drawn. The site reads this as a standard declassification template. PR150 is the outlier: about 22 percent of its frame is permanently blacked out, roughly double the norm. It is also the lowest-resolution file in the tranche (908 by 512), and the scene itself is almost entirely dark. The same piece checked whether a six-pointed 'star' artefact it had earlier traced to the camera optics in another Yellow Sea clip (PR104) shows up again. It found none in PR150 or the other INDOPACOM clips, only a compact hot return, a tracking reticle and a north indicator. Caveats: this is a single outlet's measurement, and we have not re-run it. The site itself says redaction doesn't tell you what the object is. The missing fields are exactly the ones needed to work out range, size and speed. No official explanation has been given for why PR150 is covered more heavily than its siblings. Status stays open.

    Sources The Exclusion Zone (ChemaVX), 'Release 6 Video Forensics: Four Results, Three of Them Negative,' dated 12 Oct 2026: https://www.theexclusionzone.com/pursue-release-6-video-forensics-15-clips-redaction/ · DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR150 (file measured in that analysis)

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