A dramatic video shown at a congressional hearing this week appears to show a U.S. Hellfire missile fired from a military drone striking a glowing orb—only for the object to remain completely unaffected. The footage, recorded by a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper off the coast of Yemen on October 30, 2024, has triggered a firestorm of online speculation and raised new questions about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs).
The Pentagon revealed the existence of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force in 2020; the programme is tasked with gathering all info the military has on UFO sightings which cannot be rationally explained.