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 vibrant, 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.
In the course of 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 item.
“I am not going to elucidate it to you, you will see precisely what it does,” mentioned Burlison because the video clip was performed.
The video confirmed what gave the impression to be an influence, however the object appeared to proceed on its similar trajectory.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) witness U.S. Air Drive veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli, UAP witness U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Alexandro Wiggins, UAP Journalist George Knapp, UAP witness U.S. Air Drive veteran Dylan Borland and Senior Coverage Counsel on the Mission On Authorities Oversight Joe Spielberger testify earlier than the Home Oversight Committee’s Job Drive 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 had been an energetic fight zone as U.S. Navy ships and plane protected business transport lanes from missiles and drones fired at transport vessels by the Houthi militants in Yemen.
U.S. Navy ships had been often taking pictures down Houthi missiles and drones that posed a risk to them or business vessels.
The video raises a number of questions: Did it seize a possible assault on ships? Did the item pose a risk to U.S. Naval ships working within the fight zone?
“The general public ought 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 stored going.”
“It stored 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 Drive 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 invest on what the item was within the video, however requested “Why are we being blocked from this data constantly?”
A U.S. protection official instructed ABC Information “we do not need something to supply on this” when requested to authenticate the video and the time and site 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 instances 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 Drive veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli, UAP witness U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Alexandro Wiggins, UAP Journalist George Knapp, UAP witness U.S. Air Drive veteran Dylan Borland and Senior Coverage Counsel on the Mission On Authorities Oversight Joe Spielberger are sworn-in earlier than testifying to the Home Oversight Committee’s Job Drive 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 charge 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 charge of velocity captured by the sensors aboard a Navy F/A-18 fighter jet was on account of parallax and the angle from at which the digicam considered the item.
AARO officers have mentioned beforehand that a few of the older incidents stay unexplained as a result of there was not sufficient knowledge gathered by high-tech army sensors on the time. Newer incidents present extra knowledge, due to the elevated sophistication of sensors, that analysts can use to overview 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 had been scared by what they noticed within the video. All mentioned sure except for Knapp, who replied that he was glad that the video had been launched.
