A never-before-seen video released Tuesday by a member of Congress appears to show a US military Hellfire missile bouncing off a bright, shiny object that was being tracked off the coast of Yemen on Oct. 30, 2024, according to US media outlet ABC.

The video was released at a House Government Oversight subcommittee hearing into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), which is the military’s term for UFOs, per ABC. 

The viral video provided by an anonymous whistleblower to Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Missouri), appears to show a military drone attempting to shoot down an unidentified object.

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,” fox13news.com reported. Fragments reportedly tumbled around it.

“I'm not going to explain it to you, you'll see exactly what it does,” said Burlison as the video clip was played. The video showed what appeared to be an impact, but the object seemed to continue on its same trajectory, ABC News reported. 

Burlison said he was not going to speculate on what the object was in the video, but asked “Why are we being blocked from this information consistently?” according to ABC News. 

A US defense official told ABC News “we do not have anything to provide on this” when asked to authenticate the video and the time and location it was allegedly taken.

According to US media outlet, the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) continues to investigate UAP reports filed by military personnel, some of them going back decades. While it has been able to explain some high-profile reports, there are still many cases that have been unexplained and has not found that any of the incidents are of an extraterrestrial origin. 

Global Times