The US has claimed most of the weapons airdropped in Syria reached the Kurds they were intended to help - despite a video purporting to show Islamic State militants with a bundle.
The footage, allegedly shot in Kobani, showed fighters from the jihadist group going through boxes of military supplies.
But Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said experts were analysing the video to establish whether the bundle was the one the department previously reported had fallen into IS hands or if it was a second bundle in the group's possession.
Officials said an airdrop had delivered 28 bundles of military supplies to Syrian Kurdish fighters near Kobani on Sunday but that one had been seized by militants from IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
The Pentagon later claimed it had destroyed the missing bundle in an airstrike and an Iraqi Kurdish official said 21 tons of supplies had reached the Kurds in Kobani.
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Gallery: Syrian Kurds Battle IS To Retain Control Of Kobani
Turkish soldiers clean mortars as they take up positions by the Turkish-Syrian border opposite the Syrian town of Kobani
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Smoke rises above buildings after Islamic State militants hit the Syrian town with mortar fire
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A man surveys the town from a point near the Mursitpinar border crossing, on the Turkish-Syrian border
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A fighter jet flies above Kobani
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An explosion rocks the town during an airstrike by the US-led coalition
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Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters in a street in Kobani
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Turkish soldiers take up positions
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A man watches Kobani through a sniper rifle binocular from near the Mursitpinar crossing
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Turkish army tanks take up positions by the border opposite the town
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A Turkish soldier covers an armoured vehicle
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Kurds watch Kobani - also known as Ain al-Arab - from the southeastern village of Mursitpinar. Continue through for more pictures
"We're taking a look at this," Mr Kirby said of the video.
He confirmed the small arms ammunition and weaponry depicted in the video were the kinds of supplies that were dropped, "so it's not out of the realm of possibility" that it was one of the bundles.
"We're still taking a look at it and assessing the validity of it," he said.
"We are very confident that the vast majority of the bundles did end up in the right hands. In fact, we're only aware of one bundle that did not."
Mr Kirby also said the US military was highly skilled at conducting airdrops and the method was an effective way to ferry supplies to forces on the ground.
The IS video, posted on YouTube, is called "Weapons and ammunition dropped by American planes that fell into areas of Islamic State control in Kobani".
It shows fighters inspecting boxes of hand grenades and rocket-propelled grenades.
One masked gunman holds up a grenade and says: "Booty for the mujahideen".
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Gallery: Human Cost Of Battle For Kobani
A Syrian Kurdish woman and her children at a refugee camp at Suruc, Turkey. These images have emerged as Islamic State (IS) continues to fight for control of the border town of Kobani in Syria
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Turkey dropped its refusal to allow Kurdish fighters over the border to defend besieged Kobani, saying it was now helping Iraqi peshmerga to cross the frontier in a major policy shift
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A woman boils a kettle of tea as her children gather around in Suruc
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Children try to get warm around the fire
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Children look out from their tent
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A Kurdish refugee child from the Syrian town of Kobani sits on a makeshift swing
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A woman boils a pot of tea in front of her tent
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The centre of Kobani is seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossing
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A US-led coalition aircraft flies over Kobani
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Smoke rises as bullets with tracers fly through the air after an explosion in Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by IS militants
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said US officials had seen the video but could not confirm it was accurate.
"There's obviously a lot of false information, particularly propaganda, on the internet and this may fall into that category," she said.
"We know that part of ISIL's strategy here is to wage a propaganda campaign, and that's why one of our lines of effort has been delegitimising ISIL's propaganda."
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