A local law enforcement officer submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of 1 minute and 19 seconds of video footage from a commercially available cellular device's rear-facing camera in October 2023. The reporting officer described the phenomenon as "silent" and as featuring "red, blue, and green flashing lights."
The case was submitted to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) for formal assessment as part of the office's centralized UAP reporting pipeline, including its publicly documented capability for accepting UAP reporting from state and local law enforcement agencies. AARO applies standardized analytical criteria to determine whether observed objects or phenomena can be identified as conventional aircraft, drones, atmospheric phenomena, or sensor artifacts, or whether they exhibit genuinely anomalous characteristics warranting further investigation.
This material was among records identified in response to Congressional oversight requests and was publicly released as part of the Department of War's disclosure initiative. The release is intended to promote transparency and enable independent analysis of UAP-related records held by the U.S. government.
AARO digitally altered this footage by blurring the bottom half to obscure information whose release could be reasonably expected to affect the privacy or other protected interest of a U.S. person or commercial entity.
00:00-00:47: The camera pans to track an apparent light source, keeping it generally centered within the frame.
00:48-01:19: The camera increases and decreases its level of magnification several times and continues to pan to track the apparent light source. AARO Comment: Cellular devices of the type used to capture this footage employ autofocus and other automated image-processing functions that may distort the apparent morphological and kinematic characteristics of distant subjects, particularly at high magnification.
This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event's validity, nature, or significance.
The official conclusion of AARO is that this case remains an unresolved UAP report. The available evidence, consisting of footage captured on a commercially available cellular device, does not provide sufficient information to conclusively identify the phenomenon as any specific conventional platform, nor does it contain observable characteristics that can be definitively categorized as anomalous. The designation "unresolved" reflects the determination that the available evidence is insufficient to reach a positive identification or to rule out conventional explanations.
This case is representative of a category of AARO reports received from state and local law enforcement where the duration and quality of the available data are inadequate to support a definitive analytical conclusion. Such cases remain open in AARO's case management system and may be revisited if additional data becomes available.
- Q.01What was the true nature and origin of the observed phenomenon? Without independent sensor data -- including radar tracking, corroborating optical observations, or forensic analysis of the original unaltered video file -- it is impossible to determine the object's range, velocity, altitude, or physical composition.
- Q.02What additional recordings, photographs, or witness observations from the time of the incident exist but have not been publicly released? Whether other commercial or surveillance camera systems captured contemporaneous data has not been addressed in any official public statement.
- Q.03What information has been redacted from this record, and how does that redaction affect the completeness of the public record? The reporting officer was deliberately blurred to protect their identity, which limits independent verification of the conditions under which the footage was captured.
- Q.04Have any subsequent incidents in the same area or involving similar characteristics been linked to this case? A comprehensive cross-referencing of UAP reports with matching signatures has not been conducted publicly.