DOW-UAP-PR055: Spherical UAP over Afghanistan — November 23, 2020
Date
November 23, 2020
Document Type
Video
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
▐ Partially RedactedIssuing Authority
Department of War / U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) — Afghanistan Theater
Summary
Full-motion sensor video released by the Department of War documenting a spherical UAP moving in and out of clouds over Afghanistan on November 23, 2020. The 0:47-duration video is a three-segment recording: original footage, an enhanced/zoomed/tracked segment, and a replay. The Afghanistan sphere was specifically referenced in Representative Anna Paulina Luna's March 6, 2026 letter to Secretary Hegseth requesting 46 UAP videos, making it one of the congressionally-named records in the PURSUE Release 2 corpus.
Significance
One of the congressionally-requested videos named in Rep. Luna's March 2026 letter. The three-segment structure (original, enhanced, replay) provides more analytical data than most single-clip records in the batch. Afghanistan theater UAP documentation during active CENTCOM operations has particular significance for understanding the operational security and threat-assessment implications of UAP phenomena.