"ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinity of Karaganda International Airport"
A 17-second cellphone clip from February 2022 shows a luminous object with brightness trails near Karaganda International Airport in Kazakhstan — footage that somehow made its way onto a U.S. classified network more than a year after it was recorded. AARO flags it as digitally altered before upload and notes the collection it came from lacks a verified chain-of-custody, which raises as many questions about the material's provenance as about the phenomenon itself. It's a thin but genuinely odd data point: foreign-origin, commercially captured, anonymously uploaded, and now part of the official UAP record.
On March 6, 2026, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) identified a collection of responsive materials held on a classified network. Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody.
AARO assesses that this video, whose uploader-defined title is, “ADMINISTRATIVE REVISION: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan - UAP in the vicinity of Karaganda International Airport,” is likely derived from a commercially available cellular device’s rear-facing camera in February 2022. A user uploaded this video to a classified network in April 2023.
Video Duration: 00:00:17 Video Description: This media was digitally altered prior to its upload to a classified network, and is presented as received.
00:00-00:03: No Content. 00:04-00:12: The video fades in from black to show a luminous phenomenon with trails of diminishing brightness extending from the center. The camera pans left and right, and zooms in on the phenomenon. 00:13: Video fades to black. 00:14-00:17: No content.
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