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SF-2026-000476UnverifiedAliens & UAPs

PR-010, UAP Report Resolved as a Balloon, Europe 2022

According to AARO, U.S. European Command submitted this report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon consisting of 7 minutes and 56 seconds of infrared sensor video from a U.S. military platform recorded in 2022 over Europe. AARO assesses with high confidence that the object depicted is almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a balloon, basing its assessment on the object's morphological consistency with other resolved balloon imagery and its performance characteristics aligning with lighter-than-air objects such as drifting at wind speed and direction. The file is a silent video showing a distant unified aerial object moving steadily across the sky.

Source: AARO — Official UAP Imageryd34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net ↗Incident 2022Released Sep 2025Discovered Jul 2, 2026451.5 MBvideo
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Description

An infrared video file released by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as part of its Official UAP Imagery collection. The clip consists of seven minutes and fifty-six seconds of silent infrared footage captured by a sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022, originally submitted by U.S. European Command as an unidentified anomalous phenomenon report. AARO assesses with high confidence that the object shown is almost certainly a balloon.

Claims

  • AARO assesses with high confidence that the object in the video is almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a balloon.

    85%

  • The object drifted at wind speed and direction, consistent with lighter-than-air objects.

    80%

  • The footage was captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022.

    90%

Events

  1. Dec 31, 2021

    Infrared video captured of anomalous object

    A U.S. military platform's infrared sensor recorded 7 minutes 56 seconds of footage of an aerial object over Europe.

  2. AARO resolution of report as balloon

    AARO assessed the object as almost certainly a balloon.

Dates mentioned

2022

Keywords

UAPAAROballooninfraredEUCOMEuropeunidentified anomalous phenomenonofficial UAP imageryPR-010

Entities

Events

PR-010

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