US Congress shown mysterious radar video of Hellfire missile 'bouncing off UFO'

Screen grab from the footage released by the US lawmaker

In a newly released video that left US lawmakers baffled, radar footage appeared to show an American military Hellfire missile striking what appears to be a "glowing orb" off the coast of Yemen on October 30, 2024, only to bounce off the mysterious object.

According to a New York Post report, the video was played by US lawmaker Eric Burlison at a disclosure hearing of the House Committee on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) – the military's term for UFOs. The authenticity of the video has not been confirmed by Pentagon.

Burlison told colleagues he had been “given” the clip, which he claimed was recorded by an MQ-9 Reaper drone off the coast of Yemen.

The radar footage showed the drone firing a 100-pound Hellfire air-to-ground round at a fast-moving glowing orb over the ocean. The missile appeared to make contact but the object spun and continued on its trajectory.

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"I’m not going to explain it to you, you’ll see exactly what it does," Burlison said before playing the video, according to ABC News. He later added, “It kept going, and it looks like the debris was taken with it.”

Veteran UFO journalist George Knapp, who also testified at the hearing, noted how the missile "smacked" into that UFO and just bounced right off, and kept going. "What the hell is that?," he remarked.

Knapp also claimed: “There’s a server where there’s a whole bank of these kinds of videos that Congress has not been allowed to see — that the public has not been allowed to see.”

The hearing featured testimony from two former US Air Force personnel who described multiple encounters with massive, unexplained craft.

Jeffrey Nuccetelli, a former Air Force Military Police officer, recounted incidents at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, home to the National Missile Defense Project, according to the report.

He testified that contractors had reported seeing a “massive glowing red square silently hovering” over missile sites in 2003, according to a Reuters report.

Later that night, guards described a “rectangular craft, larger than a football field” that hovered for 45 seconds before shooting away.

Dylan Borland, another Air Force veteran, told lawmakers he saw a 100-foot triangular craft near a NASA hangar at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia in 2012.

Pentagon declines comment

Asked to verify the authenticity of the footage, a US defence official told ABC News: “We do not have anything to provide on this.”

“I have nothing for you," a Pentagon spokesperson said.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which investigates military UFO reports, has catalogued more than 700 incidents but maintains that none show evidence of extraterrestrial origin. Some earlier sightings, such as the 2015 “Go Fast” video, were later attributed to optical illusions.