A never-before-seen video launched Tuesday by a member of Congress seems to point out a U.S. army Hellfire missile bouncing off a brilliant, shiny object that was being tracked off the coast of Yemen on Oct. 30, 2024.
The video was launched at a Home Authorities Oversight subcommittee listening to into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), which is the army’s time period for UFOs.
Through the listening to Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) performed a video that he mentioned “I have been given” and that he claimed was taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone.
The overhead video confirmed a fast-moving object shifting in a straight line above the waves within the waters off the coast of Yemen and captured what Burlison mentioned was a Hellfire missile fired by one other Reaper drone that appeared to strike the article.
“I am not going to clarify it to you, you may see precisely what it does,” mentioned Burlison because the video clip was performed.
The video confirmed what gave the impression to be an affect, however the object appeared to proceed on its similar trajectory.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) witness U.S. Air Power veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli, UAP witness U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Alexandro Wiggins, UAP Journalist George Knapp, UAP witness U.S. Air Power veteran Dylan Borland and Senior Coverage Counsel on the Challenge On Authorities Oversight Joe Spielberger testify earlier than the Home Oversight Committee’s Job Power on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and techniques on the Capitol, Sept. 9, 2025.
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“That is when it is zoomed out, you may nonetheless see it touring,” mentioned Burlison who didn’t present particulars of how he had obtained the video.
On the time that the video was purportedly taken, the waters off Yemen have been an energetic fight zone as U.S. Navy ships and plane protected industrial transport lanes from missiles and drones fired at transport vessels by the Houthi militants in Yemen.
U.S. Navy ships have been repeatedly capturing down Houthi missiles and drones that posed a menace to them or industrial vessels.
The video raises a number of questions: Did it seize a possible assault on ships? Did the article pose a menace to U.S. Naval ships working within the fight zone?
“The general public needs to be seeing these items, and why you are not allowed to, I do not know,” mentioned George Knapp, an investigative journalist, who was a witness at Tuesday’s listening to alongside others recognized as whistleblowers of army UFO incidents.
“That is the Hellfire missile smacking into that UFO and simply (bouncing) proper off,” he mentioned, commenting on the video. “And it saved going.”
“It saved going,” Burlison agreed, “and it seems to be just like the particles was taken with it.”
“Yeah. What the hell is that?” Knapp added.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) journalist George Knapp testifies earlier than the Home Oversight Committee’s Job Power on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and techniques on the Capitol, Sept. 9, 2025.
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Burlison mentioned he was not going to take a position on what the article was within the video, however requested “Why are we being blocked from this data constantly?”
A U.S. protection official instructed ABC Information “we don’t have something to offer on this” when requested to authenticate the video and the time and placement it was allegedly taken.
Requested to touch upon the video, a DOD spokesperson mentioned: “I’ve nothing for you.”
The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Decision Workplace (AARO) continues to research UAP studies filed by army personnel, a few of them going again a long time.
Whereas it has been capable of clarify some high-profile studies, there are nonetheless many circumstances which were unexplained and has not discovered that any of the incidents are of an extraterrestrial origin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) witness U.S. Air Power veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli, UAP witness U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Alexandro Wiggins, UAP Journalist George Knapp, UAP witness U.S. Air Power veteran Dylan Borland and Senior Coverage Counsel on the Challenge On Authorities Oversight Joe Spielberger are sworn-in earlier than testifying to the Home Oversight Committee’s Job Power on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and techniques on the Capitol, Sept. 9, 2025.
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The brand new video is much like a 2015 video that got here to be generally known as the “Go Quick” video that confirmed a fast-paced object showing to fly at a excessive fee of velocity above the waves within the waters off of California.
AARO analysts later decided that the video had captured an optical phantasm involving a climate balloon and that the excessive fee of velocity captured by the sensors aboard a Navy F/A-18 fighter jet was attributable to parallax and the angle from at which the digicam considered the article.
AARO officers have mentioned beforehand that a number of the older incidents stay unexplained as a result of there was not sufficient information gathered by high-tech army sensors on the time. Newer incidents present extra information, due to the elevated sophistication of sensors, that analysts can use to evaluation them.
On the finish of the listening to, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) replayed the video and requested the panelists in the event that they have been scared by what they noticed within the video. All mentioned sure apart from Knapp, who replied that he was glad that the video had been launched.
