PURSUE Record — DOW-UAP-PR28, Unresolved UAP Report, Greece, January 2024: Greece

DOW-UAP-PR28 is an officially released military sensor video submitted by U.S. Central Command to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and declassified under PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The record documents sixty-five seconds of multi-sensor footage captured from a U.S. military platform in Greece in 2024. The case remains formally unresolved — meaning analysts have not produced a conventional explanation — and is one of 28 sensor videos published in the Department of War's inaugural mass UAP disclosure.

What this record contains

The releasing agency is the U.S. Department of War, acting through AARO, the office Congress mandated in 2022 to centralize UAP analysis across the military and intelligence community. The footage consists of a single file part, one minute and five seconds in length, filmed via multiple sensor modalities aboard a U.S. military platform. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D7, characterizes the phenomenon as "diamond-shaped" and records an estimated speed of approximately 434 knots. The official description also notes that the UAP was "only detectable via short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensor" — a detail that carries specific analytical weight, as discussed below.

The video's documented timeline reflects a deliberate operator response. For the first ten seconds, the display runs in split-screen — electro-optical (EO) footage on the right, SWIR on the left. At four seconds, an area of contrast becomes distinguishable against the background in the center of the EO frame. At ten seconds, the operator transitions to a full-screen SWIR view to better track the phenomenon. By the 55-second mark, the area of contrast has remained broadly centered in the sensor field-of-view and, per the official description, "visually resembles an inverted teardrop with a vertically linear trailing mass suspended below." At 56 seconds, the operator begins switching to the visible-spectrum modality — the precise point at which the released description ends, mid-sentence. What that visible-light frame showed is not captured in the publicly available blurb.

Sensor & operational context

Short-wave infrared sensors detect radiation in roughly the 0.9–2.5 micrometer wavelength band — beyond visible light but distinct from the thermal infrared bands that detect emitted heat. Unlike LWIR sensors, which read an object's thermal signature, SWIR sensors primarily detect reflected radiation and certain emission phenomena. Military ISR platforms typically carry multi-spectral sensor suites precisely to cross-reference targets across modalities: a conventional aircraft, drone, or balloon will generally produce returns across multiple bands simultaneously. The explicit notation that this UAP was only detectable via SWIR — and not on the co-mounted electro-optical sensor — is operationally significant. It means the phenomenon did not register in visible light during the tracking period, which is exactly the kind of cross-modal anomaly AARO's analytical framework is designed to document and investigate.

An estimated velocity of 434 knots (~500 mph) places the object within the speed envelope of high-performance military aircraft. However, without additional parameters — altitude, slant range to target, and whether this figure represents calculated ground speed or a sensor-derived angular rate — the number alone is not sufficient to classify the object. The public release also does not clarify the specific operational context that placed a CENTCOM-affiliated platform in the Greece area, which falls within EUCOM's traditional geographic area of responsibility. That jurisdictional detail may have significance for understanding the mission type but is not addressed in the available metadata.

What this does and does not prove

What DOW-UAP-PR28 documents is the following: a U.S. military sensor suite recorded a moving phenomenon in 2024 that was visible on SWIR but absent from a co-located electro-optical sensor, which an operator described as diamond-shaped in accompanying mission reporting, and which AARO-analyzed material estimated at approximately 434 knots. Those are documented observations from official U.S. government material, now part of the public record. What the release does not establish is the nature, origin, or physical mechanism of the phenomenon. "Unresolved" in AARO's taxonomy means the case has not been explained to the office's analytical standard — it is neither a confirmation of anything exotic nor a definitive ruling-out of prosaic explanations. The abrupt truncation of the official description at the 56-second sensor switch leaves the full analytical picture incomplete in what has been released publicly.

How it fits PURSUE Release 01

DOW-UAP-PR28 belongs to the Department of War's contemporary mission report subset within PURSUE Release 01 — a cohort of recent, instrumentally documented cases submitted through active military channels and coordinated by AARO since that office's establishment. It represents precisely the category of record the disclosure framework was designed to surface: sensor-rich, formally submitted, and unresolved rather than anecdotal. For context on how this case compares to the resolved entries in the same release — where analysts identified balloons, birds, or sensor artifacts — the full PURSUE editorial series on this site covers the analytical distinctions across all 162 documents.

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.