DOW-UAP-PR057b: Platform Observes UAP — East China Sea, January 5, 2023 (INDOPACOM)

Official PublicationVideoJanuary 5, 2023
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Date

January 5, 2023

Document Type

Video

Authentication

Official Publication

Redaction Status

Partially Redacted

Issuing Authority

Department of War / U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)

Summary

Full-motion sensor video released by the Department of War documenting a UAP observed by an INDOPACOM platform over the East China Sea / Yellow Sea on January 5, 2023. Designated PR057b, this is a companion record to PR057a — both document the same January 2023 East China Sea event from different classification or archival chains. AARO noted the PR057a entry as a duplicate of this footage, establishing these as cross-reference records of the same underlying observation.

Significance

The PR057a/PR057b pair is the only twin-designation event in PURSUE Release 2, evidencing that the same UAP encounter was independently captured, archived, and declassified through at least two separate institutional pathways — providing structural corroboration independent of the video content itself.