PURSUE Record — PURSUE Case PR-066: April 2024: U.S. Department of War / AARO · U.S. Coast Guard C-144 captured a Tic Tac-shaped object on infrared near Tyndall

PR-066 is a single-part military sensor video released by the U.S. Department of War and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as part of PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The footage originates from a U.S. Coast Guard C-144 maritime patrol aircraft operating in the Tyndall area — the Gulf Coast airspace adjacent to Tyndall Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle. With an incident date of April 2024, PR-066 stands among the most temporally recent cases in the entire release.

What this record contains

The public release catalogues PR-066 as a single video file captured by a Coast Guard C-144 — the military designation for the CASA CN-235 medium-range surveillance aircraft the Coast Guard operates for maritime patrol. The sensor modality is infrared, and the official description characterises the observed object as Tic Tac-shaped. Beyond those data points, the release does not include supplementary documentation for this record: no witness statements, no analyst summary, and no resolution status are listed in the publicly available metadata. The full record and all associated source links are catalogued on the SkyLens UAP files page.

Sensor & operational context

Infrared sensors detect thermal radiation rather than reflected visible light, which means they render objects by heat differential against their background. At altitude over coastal water, a genuine physical object — aircraft, balloon, marine debris, or otherwise — will typically appear as a bright signature against a cooler sea surface. The "Tic Tac" descriptor refers to an elongated, smooth, capsule-like silhouette with no obvious control surfaces or exhaust plume visible in infrared; this is the same geometric language used in AARO's public documentation of the 2004 Nimitz encounter. The C-144's sensor suite is a standard maritime surveillance fit, not a purpose-built anomaly-detection platform, which means the footage is incidental to a routine patrol mission rather than a dedicated UAP collection event.

What this does and does not prove

What the record documents is that a Coast Guard aircrew operating near Tyndall in April 2024 observed and recorded something on infrared that the releasing agency has not publicly attributed to a conventional explanation. That is the full extent of what can be stated from the available metadata. The Tic Tac shape description comes from the official blurb, not from independent analysis of the footage. Whether the object's apparent form reflects an actual physical structure, a sensor artifact, atmospheric optics, or something else entirely is not answered by the release. PURSUE records are investigative source material, not finished intelligence assessments.

How it fits PURSUE Release 01

PR-066 sits within the contemporary Department of War sensor-video strand of PURSUE Release 01 — the same category that includes recent military and federal aircrew footage coordinated through AARO. Unlike the FBI archive series (which spans 1947–1968) or the NASA imagery materials elsewhere in the 162-record release, these recent sensor videos represent active collection. For broader context on how PR-066 relates to other cases in the set, see the SkyLens PURSUE coverage.

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.