Posted on 09/10/2025 3:57:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A House hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) stunned lawmakers when video evidence showed a U.S. drone firing a Hellfire missile at an orb off Yemen—only for the object to remain intact and keep moving, raising urgent questions about technology beyond known military capabilities.
At a House Oversight subcommittee meeting on UFO transparency and whistleblower protection, Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., unveiled the video.
The footage showed an MQ-9 drone tracking a UAP orb as another MQ-9 launched a Hellfire missile at it. The missile struck the orb, but instead of destroying it, the round appeared to "bounce right off."
"That’s a Hellfire missile smacking into that UFO and [it] just bounced right off, and it kept going," journalist George Knapp said. "There are servers where there’s a whole bank of these kind of videos that Congress has not been allowed to see."
Lawmakers and witnesses stressed that no known U.S. technology could withstand a Hellfire strike.
"Are you aware of anything in the U.S. arsenal that can split a Hellfire missile like this…and do whatever blob thing it did, and then keep going?" Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., asked each witness.
Nuccetelli and Wiggins testified that no U.S. technology is capable of surviving such a strike.
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Trust the science. It’s safe and effective. We were attacked on 9/11 because they hate us for our freedom. Yeah, those conspiracy theories sure are silly.
ROFL!!!
Your response is insane. Literally: it is utterly disconnected from reality. I pointed out that sanity lies somewhere in between blindly accepting nothing and blindly accepting anything. You're upset by that, apparently ... That causes me to suspect that you want me to blindly accept something. Since I am, in fact, sane ... my mind is on guard. I neither blindly accept nor blindly reject ... and it's possible that I have been aware of and "following" UFO stuff for longer than you have been alive. Certainly, I have been aware of it for longer than this forum has existed.
“Nuccetelli and Wiggins testified that no U.S. technology is capable of surviving such a strike.”
Appears that the warhead on the Hellfire missile failed to go off. If that’s the case, a lot of things might have *survived*. OTOH, whatever that was, it appeared to go out of control after it was struck. Maybe it didn’t survive the missile impact?
Maybe quality control let a defective warhead get passed? There's an average failure rate associated with every munition.
I see your point. To be clear, I don’t assume the Yemen detail is true — I was taking the article (and Rep. Burlison’s statement) at face value for the sake of discussion. For all we know, Burlison himself might have been misinformed. My comment was based on what was reported, not on any independent assumption of accuracy.
That’s a deflection. If you don’t have evidence, you could have just said so and saved us both the trouble.
Party balloons.
It wasn't. It was likely a drone and it was clipped by the missile which is why the missile didn't explode. You can see piece of the drone break off after it was hit.
203.
When close is good enough?
It worked just fine, yes.
It looks like the missile blasted the orb into pieces.
If the UAP was identified as originating from Yemen and was a threat, I would certainly think an attempt would be made to neutralize it. However, nowhere in the article was this reported to be the case, or even if there were hostilities taking place at the time. The article just says: “ off the coast of Yemen on October 30, 2024”. Was it one mile, 100 miles, 500 miles or more? Not clear. For all anyone knew, that could have been a civilian aircraft with GPS issues.
With regard to the munition used, that would be the first case I have heard of that a Hellfire was used against a moving aerial target. I’ve done some looking, and I can’t find any reference to these Reaper drones being used for anything other than ground targets. So an aerial target of unknown origin was fired upon with a munition not designed for that purpose. By the way, even if the warhead didn’t explode, I would still have expected to see some sort of flash just from all the kinetic energy changing to heat as the two objects collided, something I did not see in the video.
Perhaps some of the other posters saying that the UAP was some sort of plasma phenomena are correct, but even so, the more I look into it the more I think the whole story stinks.
This is NOT a “video” of anything real. It’s a video of a radar screen. Radars don’t take videos, they send out radio waves, and then collect back signals that bounce off things in their pathway. They also collect echoes, reflections, other stray radio waves, etc. A computer program then tries to make sense of this signal, and then creates an image on the screen. Objects in the pathway don’t reflect an image of the object. Its surfaces all reflect the signal differently from different surfaces, edges, materials, etc. The image shown on the screen is usually an object a standard shape selected by the software. Radars don’t show clouds, waves, earth surfaces, or things like that at all. I simply don’t believe the narrative described by non-experts looking at a video of the radar screen.
I wont bother trying to provide any proof that would satisfy you. I would suggest to ask, why now? This UFO stuff has been going on since Roswell and longer. Why have they been coming out with all this information recently? Are we really under some kind of threat? Knowing the DS’s talent for diversion, I would bet some kind of Black Swan is likely to happen. Possibly sooner than later.
I am now thinking you must be sight impaired...
Oh, I know. Just poking fun at the hysterical types. You all know who you are.
Not really very high with those. They detonate due to more than one trigger condition.
Wasn’t enough left to have a mark on it,
Nice shooting from a cannon cocker ;-)
One round? If yes, NICE!!!!
Bkmk
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