PURSUE Record — PURSUE Case PR-067: Mar 2022: U.S. Department of War / AARO · Multiple spherical UAP/USO observed near a submarine. Objects entering and exiting

PURSUE Case PR-067 is a single-part military sensor video released on May 8, 2026 as part of PURSUE Release 01, the U.S. Department of War and AARO's coordinated declassification effort. The incident date is March 2022. The record documents what the release metadata describes as multiple spherical UAP/USO observed near a submarine — objects apparently entering and exiting the water. It is one of 28 videos among the 162 total documents published in the release.

What this record contains

PR-067 is a single video file originating from a U.S. Department of War military sensor platform, coordinated through AARO — the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — for inclusion in the May 2026 release. The documented incident date is March 2022. According to the release metadata, the record captures multiple spherical objects in the vicinity of a submarine, with the objects observed both entering and exiting the water. The official description characterizes this as "the transmedium evidence" and frames the case under the category of submarine transmedium encounter — a classification referring to objects that appear to transition between aerial and aquatic environments.

Beyond that metadata, the public release does not include a detailed written case summary, witness statements, or analytical conclusion for PR-067. What exists in the public record is the video itself and its associated metadata fields — agency of origin, incident date, and the brief descriptive blurb above. The case remains officially unresolved.

Sensor & operational context

Military sensor video of this type is typically captured by electro-optical or infrared systems aboard aircraft, surface vessels, or fixed platforms assigned to monitor submarine operations. In March 2022, U.S. naval assets were operating under an elevated awareness posture regarding UAP — AARO had been formally stood up in mid-2022, and reporting protocols established by the 2021 UAP Task Force were actively in force. Submarines, by the nature of their operating environment, operate at the intersection of air and sea domains, making any object transiting between those environments particularly notable: standard sensor systems are not generally designed to track objects across that boundary.

The term USO — Unidentified Submerged Object — is the aquatic analogue to UAP, and transmedium behavior (movement between air, water, or space without apparent propulsion signature consistent with known platforms) has been cited in congressional UAP briefings as among the most analytically challenging reported phenomena. The spherical morphology noted in the metadata is consistent with other UAP reports in the broader AARO case catalog, though shape alone carries no diagnostic weight without corroborating sensor data.

What this does and does not prove

What the metadata establishes is narrow: a military sensor recorded something near a submarine in March 2022, the objects appeared spherical, and they appeared to move between water and air. That is the documented factual record. What the metadata does not establish — and what this editorial cannot supply — is any explanation for what those objects were, their origin, their method of propulsion, or whether the sensor data has been fully reviewed against environmental and platform-artifact possibilities. "Unresolved" in the AARO framework means the case has not been explained to the analysts' satisfaction. It does not confirm that the objects were anomalous in any extraordinary sense, nor does it rule that out. The video itself is the primary evidence, and its full analytical context has not been made public.

How it fits PURSUE Release 01

PR-067 sits within the contemporary Department of War mission-report tier of PURSUE Release 01 — the post-2020 military sensor cases that represent AARO's active investigative caseload rather than historical archive material. Alongside other unresolved DoW sensor videos in the release, it forms the evidentiary core of what Congress mandated AARO to investigate and disclose. For readers building a full picture of the release, the SkyLens UAP files page catalogs all 162 records with their metadata, and our broader PURSUE coverage examines other cases from across the FBI archive, NASA, and DoW tiers for comparison.

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.