DOW-UAP-PR112 + PR116 — Release 4's U.S. East Coast Cluster (Eastern US 2019, Atlantic Ocean 2020)

The modern-era U.S. domestic thread in PURSUE Release 04 runs across three files. PR108 (Western US 2020) is the most-discussed. The two remaining ones cover the East Coast: DOW-UAP-PR112 — Eastern United States, 2019 and DOW-UAP-PR116 — Atlantic Ocean, 2020.

Why grouping them matters

An individual "Eastern US 2019" or "Atlantic Ocean 2020" record is easy to overlook. Taken together — and read alongside the extensive prior "East Coast UAP wave" reported through 2014–2015 by U.S. Navy Super Hornets off the USS Theodore Roosevelt (the "GIMBAL" and "GO FAST" era) — the R04 files extend a well-established pattern in U.S. military UAP encounters: the Atlantic seaboard has been a persistent activity zone throughout the modern PURSUE era.

What we know

Both files are described only as "Unresolved UAP Reports" with location and year. Sensor type, duration, and platform details are not detailed in the public metadata to date. As the war.gov catalogue is more fully indexed, each file will get its own specific documentation.

What the previous East Coast wave (2014–2015) looked like

During the 2014–2015 workups of Carrier Strike Group 12 out of Norfolk Virginia, F/A-18F Super Hornet crews from the USS Theodore Roosevelt reported near-daily sensor encounters with objects that appeared to defy conventional flight profiles. Multiple crew members — including Lt. Ryan Graves, who publicly described the encounters in 2019 — reported that the objects were tracked on radar (SPY-1D, APG-79) and appeared on infrared (ATFLIR), sometimes simultaneously across multiple aircraft. Some of those encounters became the GIMBAL and GO FAST videos officially released by the Pentagon in 2020. PR112 and PR116 come from adjacent years (2019, 2020) and adjacent theaters (Eastern US, Atlantic Ocean).

The candor caveat

As with all Release 04 modern-era files, mundane candidates (balloons, ice, cirrus, distant commercial aircraft misidentified in sensor systems) remain on the table. The Roosevelt-era encounters had similarly wide skepticism. Whether PR112 and PR116 turn out to be extensions of the anomalous pattern or eventually get identified as conventional is not determinable from the public record alone.

The full domestic cluster in Release 04

• PR108 — Western United States, 2020 ("Tic Tac"-like)
• PR112 — Eastern United States, 2019
• PR116 — Atlantic Ocean, 2020

For Release 04's full inventory, see the SkyLens overview. Both files are on war.gov/ufo.