File 062 · 25 April 2013
Aguadilla infrared
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, United States
Opened 9/4/2026
Ledger illustration of the file — not a photograph of the object. Ledger illustration of the report. North-west Puerto Rico coast at night. — Night Ledger illustration of the file
Standing
Unidentified
On the public record, and still open. A claim, paper, or film — not a finding that it was ours, and not a finding that it was not.
Aguadilla CBP infrared — public-domain U.S. government work
U.S. Customs and Border Protection / DVIDS. AARO later offered a mundane reconstruction. The clip is the record, not a recovered craft.
Original tape · original language kept
English writing · original voice kept
English HUD on U.S. Customs and Border Protection infrared, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. A DHC-8 records a heat source over Rafael Hernández Airport, then toward the water. Some viewers read a split or a transmedium event. AARO later assessed two objects at wind speed, possibly sky lanterns, and did not treat a transmedium event as proven. The tape is a U.S. government work.
What was claimed
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection infrared video from Aguadilla appears to show an object over the water that splits, or is joined, without an obvious aircraft profile.
What is on the record
The clip is authentic CBP sensor footage, now also hosted as a U.S. government work on DVIDS. AARO later assessed sky lanterns / two objects at wind speed and did not treat a transmedium event as proven. The film is real. The extraordinary reading is not a government finding.
A DHC-8 of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, flying a routine patrol with infrared, tracked a heat-bright object moving fast and low near Rafael Hernández Airport. The object crossed the beach, appeared to enter the water without slowing, continued, and then seemed to split into two. The crew was not chasing a known aircraft.
The video leaked in 2013 and was later examined by the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, which published a technical paper arguing against a dual-engine aircraft, a pair of sky lanterns, or a balloon, and leaving the identification open. Critics still offer a pair of ultralights or a sensor artifact on the water.
It is a government sensor tape, not a story. The written account is the crew’s and the analysts’. The picture is the infrared itself — not reproduced in this file.
Could this have been ours?
The known sky, that night.
The station was flying. Starlink was not. A string of orbs in this year is usually not a train.
1998 —
International Space Station
A bright, steady moving star. A few minutes to cross. No strobe. Occupied since 2000. NASA publishes the pass times. Not unidentified.
Always
Venus and the bright planets
A fixed brilliant point. Does not streak. Does not hover over a street then leave. Often the first misread light in a rural report.
Always
Aircraft, balloons, meteors
Landing lights, flares, lanterns, reentries, fireballs. They are on the known sky. They do not close a file by themselves — they are what a serious look has to hold the claim against.
Orbit · Space — the desks for lights that are already named.
Sources
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