📅 Overview
On January 25, 2024, a U.S. Department of War aircraft recorded a video of an unidentified flying object over the Mediterranean Sea near Greece. The infrared (FLIR) camera captured the object performing a 90-degree sharp turn while flying at 80 mph (approximately 130 km/h).
📷 U.S. War Department / DVIDS (Public Domain)
🎨 findlatlng.org Imagen 3 illustration · Actual incident from PURSUE official video
🔍 Incident Timeline
- Location: Mediterranean Sea, near Greece (NATO operational area)
- Date: January 25, 2024
- Recording medium: U.S. military aircraft infrared camera
- Object appearance: small luminous body in the footage
- Behavior characteristics:
- Flying at approximately 80 mph (130 km/h)
- Sudden 90-degree perpendicular turn
- A conventional aircraft cannot withstand the G-force at 80 mph for a 90-degree turn
🛂 Official Handling
Department of War analysis:
- Clearly different from conventional aircraft flight characteristics
- Compared against known adversary military aircraft/drones → no match
- Classified as 'Unresolved'
🤔 Questions
Physical questions:
- A perpendicular 90-degree turn at 80 mph corresponds to infinite G-force → impossible for conventional aircraft
- The acceleration pattern during the turn does not match natural phenomena
- Difficult to reproduce with any known drone technology
📺 Impact and Significance
- One of the most notable military videos in the 2026 PURSUE disclosure
- An instance of the U.S. obtaining UAP footage near NATO allied territory — international dimension
- The 90-degree turn is a clear case of behavior violating the laws of motion
