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Congressman shows never-before-seen video at military UFO hearing

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This event happened in Oct. 2024 off the coast of Yemen.

A MQ-9 drone launched a hellfire against the object and it was hit, yet kept flying.

I noticed this story yesterday in our CT forum but obviously its not CT.

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

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

During the hearing Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) played a video that he said "I've been given" and that he claimed was taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone."

"Highlighting the credibility of such accounts, Democratic Representative for Florida Jared Moskowitz, criticized the government for misleading the public on UAPs, saying the veterans' "impeccable records" make it difficult to dismiss these sightings."




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Should have sprayed the little bugger with water. That's the secret.
 
Does anyone else find it alarming that the US military is shooting missiles at things that they can’t identify?
 
Helix said:
Should have sprayed the little bugger with water. That's the secret.
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Probably. What I'd like to know is why the military has to come up with such convoluted labels like "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena." Is that to make our enemies think we use big words so we're scary smart, or do you think it's because the military is sure Americans won't know what it means, so we'll just ignore the whole thing??
 
Or make fun of it.
 
I'm not sure what the naming convention is for imaginary distractions from outer space.
 

Some of it is institutional inertia, where you rename things so it looks like you're doing something and/or modernizing.

Way cheaper than actual innovation.
 
The thing might be too small or the wrong material to trigger the hellfire missile to explode.
 
Jezcoe said:
Does anyone else find it alarming that the US military is shooting missiles at things that they can’t identify?
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If I recall, standard orders are that any unidentified aircraft or vessel's incursion into the perimeter of a carrier group gets shot at.
Think of the USS Cole bombing and you'll understand why.
 
The whole thing was most likely a Pentagon test.
 
Helix said:
I'm not sure what the naming convention is for imaginary distractions from outer space.
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Heh that's a goodie: "Imaginary Distractions from Outer Space" also known as IDOS
 
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