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DoD-B21-020 · 2021-04-08

USS Russell Pyramid UAP — Navy FLIR 2021

DoDPacific Ocean, off California coastNorth America#2021TriangularSea level to 700 ftMultiple nights
EVIDENCE GALLERY

Visual reconstruction and recovered media extracted from the incident dossier. Includes motion playback from the released archive.

Representative official gallery image traced to an official public-source archive

MEDIA STATUS
Official gallery media is shown as representative archive context for this case.
SOURCE TYPE
Sensor capture, analyst notes, and released archive media.
VIEW MODE
Still view highlights silhouette, environment, and encounter geometry.
AT A GLANCE

FLIR footage from the USS Russell and other Navy vessels filmed triangular or pyramid-shaped UAP hovering over the ships at night. The footage, leaked by investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell, showed objects appearing as triangular blinking lights through night-vision equipment. The Pentagon confirmed the footage was shot by Navy personnel and was under investigation by the UAP Task Force. The same deployment documented the USS Omaha transmedium sphere event, making it the most UAP-rich naval deployment in the modern record.

PRIMARY WITNESSES
USS Russell crew, USS Kearsarge crew
EVIDENCE PROFILE
VISUAL RECONSTRUCTIONVIDEO PLAYBACKTRIANGULAR
FILE ID
DoD-B21-020
DATE
2021-04-08
AGENCY
DoD
REGION
North America
SHAPE
Triangular
ALTITUDE
Sea level to 700 ft
OBSERVED BEHAVIORS
Stationary HoverAnti-Gravity HoverTransmedium (Air/Water)
DECLASSIFIED DETAILS

In April 2021, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell released night-vision FLIR footage taken from the USS Russell destroyer showing triangular blinking objects hovering near the ship at low altitude, appearing through the night-vision as pyramid shapes with three points of light. The footage had been taken during the same 2019 deployment that produced the USS Omaha transmedium sphere footage. The Pentagon confirmed the footage was shot by US Navy personnel and was under investigation by the UAP Task Force. Additional footage from the USS Kearsarge during the same deployment showed similar objects. The pyramid appearance in FLIR footage was later explained by some analysts as a camera aperture diffraction artifact — the camera's aperture creating three-pointed shapes from point sources of light. However, the primary significance was the pattern: the same naval deployment in 2019 off San Diego produced multiple separate types of UAP footage including the Omaha sphere, the Russell pyramid, and additional material. The density of documented events during a single deployment period made it the richest source of military-confirmed UAP footage in the post-2017 disclosure era. AARO subsequently received all the footage from the deployment for analysis.

KEY CHARACTERISTICS
  • Night-vision FLIR footage released by Corbell — Pentagon confirmed Navy personnel shot it
  • Triangular pyramid appearance — whether artifact or craft structure debated by analysts
  • Same deployment produced USS Omaha transmedium sphere footage — highest-density UAP deployment
  • USS Kearsarge also documented similar objects during same period
  • UAP Task Force received all footage for analysis — part of official investigation
  • Made 2019 San Diego deployment most documented UAP naval event in modern record
ORIGINAL SOURCE

This incident is indexed as file DoD-B21-020inside Now Declassified's research layer. The nearest official source trail for this agency points to NARA RG 615 / OSD, where archive records, imagery, or supporting context are published for public review.

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EVIDENCE STRENGTH
MODERATE
Video Record
25
Still Imagery
0
Witness Credibility
14
Sensor Corroboration
20
Physical Evidence
0
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