Aguadilla Puerto Rico — Transmedium Entry/Exit

On April 25, 2013, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Cessna Citation aircraft operating a FLIR thermal imaging system near Rafael Hernández Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, recorded approximately three minutes of footage of an unidentified aerial object. The object, appearing as a pink-tinted orb on thermal imaging, was flying at approximately 80 mph at low altitude, avoided the airport's approach corridor, then flew directly into the Atlantic Ocean without any observable splash or deceleration. The thermal imaging system tracked the object underwater, where it continued at an estimated 90+ mph submerged. The object then re-emerged from the ocean and split into two separate objects before departing at high speed. The footage was leaked from U.S. government sources and analyzed by an independent scientific group including former CIA and DoD analysts, who published their findings. AARO later independently referenced this case in its historical record report as an example of a transmedium UAP encounter. The case predates the formal AARO program by nearly a decade but is included in the historical archive record.