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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the U.S. Department of Defense issued this case resolution on February 6, 2025, with a technical appendix, on the "Go Fast" video recorded by a U.S. Navy F/A-18F FLIR sensor off Florida in January 2015. Working from the public 34-second video, AARO puts the object at about 13,000 feet, moving roughly 5 to 92 mph once wind is accounted for. It concludes with high confidence that the object showed no anomalous performance and that its apparent speed came from motion parallax.
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UNCLASSIFIED 5 UNCLASSIFIED Appendix A: Estimating UAP Location, Speed, and Heading from “Go Fast” FLIR Video Data February 2025 Introduction In 2024, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) estimated possible altitude, speed, and heading solutions for an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP), commonly known as “Go Fast.” The executive summary, general overview, and conclusions are provided in the AARO “Go Fast” Case resolution [ref 1]. This paper presents a more in-depth data analysis for those interested in the mathematics and calculations applied to the forward-looking infrared (FLIR) video footage captured by an AN/ASQ sensor pod onboard the F/A-18 Super Hornet observing the event in January 2015. AARO manually extracted data from a publicly available video of the “Go Fast” event as the source material to conduct its analysis. Video footage collected via military sensors, like the AN/ASQ, are not required to collect Full- Motion Video (FMV) or other Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) products. Therefore, it is not intended to support intelligence or other rigorous analysis. Thus, video footage from these platforms often contains compression artifacts or lacks the necessary metadata to conduct an exhaustive analysis. For proper FMV products, standard analysis is done using software packages such as SOCET GXP [ref 2]. SOCET GXP is a suite of geospatial analytic software tools that utilize satellite and airborne imagery to measure and detect objects and phenomena. Generally, FMV is used to track objects on the surface of the earth such as road vehicles, ships, and tanks. In these cases, an object’s location can be determined since an FMV sensor knows where it is and where it is pointed and can then calculate the distance to the ground point. In the case of the “Go-Fast” video, the object is not on the ground and the sensor/aircraft location is not provided in the metadata. Despite these limitations, the basic techniques used in FMV analysis can be applied with some alteration for analyzing UAP cases. AARO reconstructed the F/A-18’s flight path and position and assessed possible trajectories of the “Go Fast” UAP using the mathematics, standard methods, and conventions defined in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Motion Imagery Standards Board’s UAS Datalink Local Set Standards (MISB ST 0601.19 dated March 02, 2023) [ref 3]. Step-by-step calculations are provided in this paper to estimate the motion characteristics of the UAP in the “Go Fast” event from the same video accessible by the public.
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