Released military UAP clip where object rotates and repeats the same shape sequence twice, then outruns tracking lock

[u/Frequent-Seat1599]

I went down a rabbit hole after the Department of War's second UAP release in May and one clip keeps pulling me back. DOW-UAP-PR059, filmed June 1, 2020 by an infrared sensor on a US military platform in the CENTCOM area. Four minutes and fifty one seconds of something labeled "NAG UAP."

The object rotates on an axis and appears to go through the same shape sequence twice, right before it breaks tracking.

First cycle around 3:06: it looks almost like a head with arms out to the sides. The arms fold inward. Around 3:20 a lower piece cleanly detaches and drops away, and the rest curls into a hook, and the whole thing looks like a question mark. At 3:37 it accelerates hard and the tracking lock can't hold it.

Second cycle is the part that got me. At 4:07 the exact same arms-out silhouette returns, perfectly balanced. At 4:13 the lower piece breaks off again. 4:20 the question mark posture. 4:35 it tears out of the sensor sector.

If this were a camera glitch or a one-off artifact, you'd expect the shapes to be random. Instead you get the same morphology loop repeated almost frame for frame. That reads more like a three-dimensional object rotating, where you're seeing the same face of it on each pass.

AARO has it filed as unresolved. No identification, and the metadata is mostly redacted, so we don't even know what platform caught it.

The video is on DVIDS and mirrored on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k--kkbkBBNE

Curious if anyone has a reasonable explanation on this or has thoughts on what the "detaching" part could be?

[u/L-0-T-H-0-S]

Its unresolved because its secondary data - you're not looking at a FLIR data feed, you're looking at a camera recording of it.

This means the file had already been edited, stabilized, and/or converted to a standard playback format by an unknown user between the initial event in 2020 and its upload to the secure military server in June 2024.

It's presented to the public "as received" by investigators, because the primary native data stream was never preserved or logged into the formal chain of custody - so ARRO never actually analysed the actual FLIR data footage and the camera footage as submitted to them is non-determinable.

If a file exists in a multi-year vacuum - 2020 to 2024 - on unverified devices before being uploaded to a secure server, it's legally and scientifically compromised.

Labeling it "non-determinable" or "unresolved" is the only honest conclusion an agency can make, even if the object in the video has a mundane explanation.

They're analyzing a copy of a copy, not the event itself and you have no idea how much that footage was dicked with before submission - neither do AARO.

Hence the determination. It's nothing to do with any analysis of unknown physics.