Video shown at House UAP hearing appears to show missile fired at object near Yemen
Video presented Tuesday during an audience of the Chamber Committee on “unidentified abnormal phenomena”, supposed to show a missile drawn on an object, that a member of the congress called an “Orb”, off the coast of Yemen in 2024.
The video was played in a working group on the declassification of the federal hearing of secrets which focused on “unidentified abnormal phenomena”, also known as UAP, which are unexplained objects seen in the sky.
Representative Eric Burlison, R-MO., Said that the video had been taken on October 30, 2024 and shows an unknown object followed by an MQ-9 drone, also known as Reaper.
A second MQ-9 drone not seen in the video pulled a Hellfire missile on the object, said Burlison.
The video seems to display a speed image, apparently the missile, between the left of the screen and contact the object, which continues but deforms and tumbles, and the small objects (one of them very low) come out of the back.
“He continued, and it seemed that the debris had been taken with it,” said Burlison. “I’m not going to speculate what it is, but the question is why are we blocked from this information?”
Burlison said the video came from a denunciator and an independent review was underway.
The working group on the declassification of federal secrets was trained by the Chamber’s supervisory committee in February and was responsible for examining the declassification of documents in the public interest, “said the president of the supervisory committee James Comer at the time.
Tuesday’s audience was entitled “Restoring public confidence thanks to transparency and protection of denouncing”.
The existence of the UAPS, which in pop culture has also been called UFO, has long captured the public as potential evidence of extraterrestrial life or secret programs, although there has never been concrete evidence for one or the other of the explanations.
In November 2024, the Pentagon published an annual UAPS report and said that some of the possible observations were proven to be unmanned balloons, birds and air systems.
Some cases were closed because there was not enough evidence to carry out an analysis and 21 were deemed worthy of a more analysis, according to the report. The Defense Department’s Anomalies Resolution Office is carrying out efforts to collect and analyze UAP reports.
“It is important to emphasize that, to date, Aaro has not discovered any evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology,” said the report.
The report also indicated that “none of these resolved cases has justified advanced foreign opponent capacities or revolutionary aerospace technologies”.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Told Tuesday’s hearing that skepticism on the question of the UAPS had led to hasty conclusions.
“For too long, the question of unidentified abnormal phenomena – commonly called UAP – has been wrapped in secrets, stigmatization and, in some cases, a dismissal,” she said. “Today, I mean clearly: it’s not science fiction or speculation creation.”
She said that the question concerned national security and “the right of the American people to the truth” and that it spoke to a certain number of what she called the military’s reproductors.
The American Air Force veteran Dylan Borland, said on Tuesday at the hearing that he had seen a UAP, which he said involved the US government in 2012, when he was parked at the Langley Air Force in Virginia.
Borland, who was a geospatial intelligence specialist, said that he returned to his barracks and around 1:30 am, he saw “an equilateral triangle about 100 feet long take off near the NASA hangar on the base”.
“The craftsmanship interfered with my phone had no sound, and the equipment which was done seemed fluid or dynamic,” he said. “I was under this triangular craft for a few minutes, then he quickly went up to the jet commercial in a few seconds, displaying a kinetic disturbance, a movement of the sound or the wind.”
It was not clear from the listening of Tuesday what the object was off the coast of Yemen in which the missile would have been dismissed.
Luna told NBC News on Tuesday evening that she did not know what the video is the video, but that the public deserves answers and that videos as it was too classified by the government.
“I do not know any balloons that can be divided, then stay together like this particular thing,” she said.
“But what I’m going to tell you is that, in the name of science and in the name of national security, we should get answers to these questions and we should take this seriously,” she said.
Military tensions around Yemen were raised, after the Houthi rebels attacked sales ships there in November 2023. The militants supported by Iran said that the actions aimed to support Hamas and against Israel for the war in Gaza.
