A current Congressional listening to revealed video of a Hellfire missile fired by a Reaper drone “bouncing off” an alien craft, which has onlookers—Congress included—scratching their heads. The listening to passed off in a Home Oversight subcommittee assembly on UFO transparency that was partially hosted by MAGA congresswoman and state-sanctioned UFO investigator Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. The video positive is, uh, one thing. As Fox Information melodramatically places it: A Home listening to on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) shocked lawmakers when video proof confirmed a U.S. drone firing a Hellfire missile at an orb off Yemen—just for the article to stay intact and hold shifting, elevating pressing questions on know-how past recognized navy capabilities. The video was first shared publicly by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Missouri), who famous that it was “taken [on] October 30 of 2024″ and characterised it as an “MQ-9 drone monitoring an orb or this object off the coast of Yemen.” Burlison mentioned the footage is “introduced as obtained from a whistleblower. Impartial evaluate is ongoing.” Beneath is the video I revealed in our @GOPoversight UAP listening to at the moment, made obtainable to the general public for the primary time. October thirtieth, 2024: MQ-9 Reaper allegedly monitoring orb off coast of Yemen. Greenlight given to have interaction, missile seems to be ineffective in opposition to the goal.… pic.twitter.com/jxJwl0e00S — Rep. Eric Burlison (@RepEricBurlison) September 9, 2025 Calling this “orb” a UFO looks like a stretch, because it doubtless had one thing to do with the regional navy conflicts round Yemen, the place the footage was captured. However hey, it’s a flying object that hasn’t been recognized.
A number of years in the past, UFOs have been re-branded as UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon). The rebrand was, like most rebrands, adopted by a re-launch of the core product (on this case, UFO tales), and an tried cultural re-glow-up. By that I imply, there’s been a concerted effort to make UFOs “a factor” once more, and Rep. Luna has been on the forefront of these efforts. Luna’s lately launched “Process Pressure on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and techniques” has been designed to resurrect many controversial “conspiracy principle”-tinged matters, UFOs included. Luna additionally hosted a listening to that featured claims made by supposed UFO whistleblower David Grusch. What does the above video truly present? Your guess is nearly as good as mine. I doubt it reveals a time-traveling entity from one other realm or an extraterrestrial spacecraft (each issues that individuals who have spoken at Luna’s numerous hearings have supplied as potential explanations for current UFO sightings). Nonetheless, one factor of fabric substance revealed at this listening to is that the U.S.’s unmanned aerial cadres at the moment are being deployed to shoot unidentified objects out of the sky. The Warfare Zone writes, of the lately launched footage: The footage and the circumstances behind it are in any other case unconfirmed, however this seems to be the primary recognized occasion of a Reaper partaking an aerial goal of any sort in an operational setting…The thought of using MQ-9s within the air-to-air position, at the least for self-defense, isn’t new. In a take a look at in 2017, a Reaper efficiently downed a goal drone utilizing an AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile. There was a precedent already at the moment for arming drones on this means, with at the least some Predators having been modified to permit them to fireside heat-seeking Stingers within the lead-up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. In at the least one occasion in 2002, a Predator fired a Stinger at an Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat fighter that was making an attempt to shoot it down… A narrative a few hostile engagement between aliens and a drone would, in fact, be extra fascinating, however the evolution of unmanned aerial protection programs is fairly fascinating, too. On that entrance, our flying killer robots simply appear to maintain getting higher and higher. That’s excellent news, I suppose, till the day one occurs to return after you.
