House UAP hearing: veterans describe sightings and missile-orb video

Three military veterans and other witnesses testified under oath Tuesday before a House task force that they have repeatedly observed unidentified aerial phenomena, and lawmakers displayed video they said shows a U.S. Hellfire missile striking a glowing orb off the coast of Yemen on October 30, 2024 and failing to stop it. The session on Capitol Hill, part of an ongoing congressional review of unidentified anomalous phenomena, focused on eyewitness accounts, alleged retaliation against reporters, and calls for greater transparency and whistleblower protections.

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri showed the footage during the hearing and said it had been provided by a whistleblower and is under independent review. Video provided to the committee, according to witnesses at the hearing, appears to show an MQ9 Reaper drone firing a roughly 100 pound Hellfire air to ground missile that makes contact with a spinning, orb shaped object, after which the object reportedly continued at speed. A veteran journalist testifying at the hearing said there are additional stored videos that Congress and the public have not yet seen.

Three service members described separate, previously...