DOW-UAP-PR071: USAF ANG F-16C Shoots Down UAP over Lake Huron — February 12, 2023
Date
February 12, 2023
Document Type
Video
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
▐ Partially RedactedIssuing Authority
Department of War / U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) — Michigan Air National Guard
Summary
Full-motion sensor video released by the Department of War documenting a U.S. Air Force Air National Guard F-16C engaging and destroying a UAP over Lake Huron, Michigan, on February 12, 2023. The 0:46-duration video shows a kinetic interaction between two distinct areas of contrast, with the initial subject fragmenting in a radial displacement pattern at the 0:20 mark — the moment of missile impact. This is the only publicly released video record of a U.S. military air-to-air engagement against an unidentified aerial object in the PURSUE corpus and among the most historically significant UAP records ever made public. The February 12, 2023 Lake Huron shootdown was the fourth object shot down in eight days during the Chinese balloon episode.
Significance
The most historically significant video record in PURSUE Release 2. PR071 documents a sovereign act of kinetic force against an unidentified aerial object over U.S. territory — the first publicly confirmed government video of a UAP shootdown. The 'radial displacement pattern' at 0:20 is consistent with terminal fragmentation of the target. The Lake Huron object was officially described as an octagonal structure with strings; its true nature was never publicly confirmed by the Pentagon, making this video the most direct evidence available regarding what was destroyed.