Japan Football-Shaped Object
Indo-Pacific Command imagery and 9-second IR clip showing a football-shaped body with three radial projections, observed near Japan.
DOW-UAP-PR46: 9-second infrared clip of a football-shaped body with three radial projections, captured by US Indo-Pacific Command, January 2024.
AARO / US Indo-Pacific Command
Still frame from the INDOPACOM 2024 encounter showing the football-shaped body.
Department of Defense via Scientific American
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DOW-UAP-D42 · pdf · Release 01
DOW-UAP-D50 · pdf · Release 01
Provenance metadataFields marked “not disclosed” are transparent gaps in the release, not omissions on our end.
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Official description
Photographic still and short infrared clip labeled 'Unresolved UAP Report' from US Indo-Pacific Command. Subject is described as football or oval-shaped with three radial projections, one oriented vertically and two oriented downward at a 45-degree angle.
Editor's context
Limited observation window and single-platform sensor data restrict definitive analysis. The football/oval shape category recurs across multiple military reports from different theaters and decades.
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- Stampp. DVIDS metadataU.S. INDO-PACIFIC COMMAND, DOW-UAP-PR46
- StampDECLASSIFIED PER PURSUE, May 8, 2026
- Annotation9-second IR clip. Object morphology: oval / football body with three radial projections, one vertical, two angled at 45° downward.
- AnnotationCompanion files: DOW-UAP-D42 (Range Fouler Debrief, Japan, 2023), DOW-UAP-D50 (INDOPACOM email correspondence Apr 2025).
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U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. "Japan Football-Shaped Object." Released via PURSUE program, 2026-05-08. https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1006106/dow-uap-pr46-unresolved-uap-report-indopacom-2024. Accessed 2026-08-12 via Social Media for Aliens archive, https://socialmediaforaliens.com/files/japan-football-shape-2024.
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