PURSUE Record — PURSUE Case PR-028: Greece 2024: U.S. Department of War / AARO · SWIR and electro-optical sensors, 1 min 5 sec. Object described as diamond-shap

PURSUE Case PR-028 is a military sensor video released on May 8, 2026, as part of PURSUE Release 01 — the inaugural declassified UAP document set published by the U.S. Department of War and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The record documents an aerial encounter in Greece in 2024, captured across two complementary sensor modalities, and runs for one minute and five seconds. In the official release catalog, the case is marked unresolved. It is one of 28 video records in a release that also spans 14 images and 120 PDF documents.

What this record contains

According to the release metadata catalogued on the SkyLens UAP files page, PR-028 is a single-part video file attributed to the U.S. Department of War and coordinated through AARO. The incident location is Greece, the year is 2024, and the capture systems are identified as SWIR (shortwave infrared) and electro-optical (EO) sensors. The clip runs one minute and five seconds. The official report describes the object as diamond-shaped. No further contextual detail — unit, altitude, time-of-day, or geographic coordinates — is disclosed in the public release metadata for this record.

The description blurb in the release reads in full: "SWIR and electro-optical sensors, 1 min 5 sec. Object described as diamond-shaped in the official report." That single sentence constitutes the entirety of the officially released contextual annotation. The public record does not include witness names, platform type, or a chain-of-custody narrative beyond the agency attribution.

Sensor & operational context

SWIR and electro-optical sensors are standard components of modern military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms — mounted on fixed-wing aircraft, rotary assets, and ground-based tracking systems alike. Electro-optical sensors operate in the visible light spectrum and function similarly to a high-resolution camera optimized for low-noise imaging at altitude. SWIR sensors extend coverage into the 1,000–2,500 nanometer wavelength range, well beyond what the human eye detects, making them effective in haze, partial cloud cover, and low-ambient-light environments where visible-band cameras degrade. When an object appears clearly and consistently across both sensor types simultaneously, that multi-spectral agreement adds a layer of confidence that the return is not an artifact of a single sensor's noise floor or optical distortion. The diamond shape noted in the official report is a descriptor derived from this sensor imagery, not a visual eyewitness account.

Greece in 2024 represents a strategically active airspace. The eastern Mediterranean has seen heightened NATO ISR activity, and the region's geography — maritime corridors, proximity to contested airspace, and varied atmospheric conditions — makes it a meaningful operational environment for the kind of persistent sensor monitoring that would produce footage of this type. None of that context, however, is confirmed by the released record itself; it is background the reader should hold loosely.

What this does and does not prove

What the record documents, strictly speaking, is this: a diamond-shaped object was tracked by SWIR and electro-optical sensors in Greek airspace in 2024 for approximately sixty-five seconds, and the analysts coordinating this material for AARO were unable to assign it a conventional explanation before the release date. The unresolved designation means the case has not been explained — it does not mean anomalous origin has been established or even suggested by the releasing agencies. A lack of resolution is an analytical outcome, not a conclusion. The object could be an unmanned aerial vehicle of known type not yet matched to registry data, an atmospheric phenomenon that behaves unusually in infrared, a foreign military asset, or something else entirely. The public release does not adjudicate between those possibilities, and neither should independent commentary.

How it fits PURSUE Release 01

PR-028 sits within the contemporary Department of War mission-report tier of PURSUE Release 01 — the subset of 28 videos representing active-era military sensor captures, as distinct from the release's FBI archive documents stretching back to 1947 or its NASA imagery components. As one of the more recent geographic entries in the release, the Greece 2024 case reflects AARO's expanded international collection scope. Taken alongside other unresolved video cases in the same release, it contributes to a documented pattern of sensor encounters that AARO has chosen to surface publicly rather than hold. For context on the full release structure and adjacent cases, the PURSUE coverage index on the blog maps the broader set.

Editorial note: This analysis is independent commentary on a publicly released document. The original record, source links, and full release metadata are catalogued on the SkyLens UAP files page alongside every other case in the PURSUE Release 01 set.