The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of thirty-one seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022.
AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the object depicted in the video is almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a balloon. AARO bases its assessment on the object’s strong morphological consistency with other resolved imagery featuring balloons and the object’s performance characteristics strongly aligning with those of lighter-than-air objects, e.g., drifting at wind speed and direction.
| Date Taken: | 01.01.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 09.17.2025 10:30 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 977221 |
| VIRIN: | 220101-O-UY549-1702 |
| Filename: | DOD_111300649 |
| Length: | 00:00:32 |
| Location: | US |
| Downloads: | 4 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 4 |
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