周二，一名国会议员发布了一段前所未见的视频，显示2024年10月30日，一枚美军地狱火导弹从也门海岸被追踪的一个明亮闪亮的物体上反弹。
该视频是在众议院政府监督小组委员会对不明异常现象(UAP)的听证会上发布的，这是军方对不明飞行物的术语。
在听证会上，众议员埃里克·伯利森(共和党。)播放了一段视频，他说“我被给予了”，他声称是由MQ-9 Reaper无人机拍摄的。
头顶上的视频显示，一个快速移动的物体在也门沿海水域的波浪上方直线移动，并捕捉到了Burlison所说的另一架Reaper无人机发射的地狱火导弹，该导弹似乎击中了该物体。
“我不会向你解释，你会看到它到底是什么，”播放视频剪辑时，伯利森说。
视频显示似乎是一次撞击，但该物体似乎继续沿着相同的轨迹前进。
“当它缩小时，你仍然可以看到它在移动，”伯利森说，他没有提供他如何获得视频的细节。
在这段视频据称被拍摄的时候，也门附近的水域是一个活跃的战区。海军船只和飞机保护商业航道免受也门胡塞武装分子向运输船只发射的导弹和无人机的袭击。
美国海军舰艇经常击落对他们或商业船只构成威胁的胡塞武装导弹和无人机。
该视频提出了几个问题:它是否捕捉到了对船只的潜在攻击?这个物体对在战区活动的美国海军舰艇构成威胁了吗?
“公众应该看到这些东西，我不知道为什么不允许你看到，”调查记者乔治·纳普(George Knapp)说，他和其他被认定为军事UFO事件举报者的人一起见证了周二的听证会。
“那是地狱火导弹撞上了那个不明飞行物，然后就(反弹)了“马上，”他在评论这段视频时说。它一直在继续。"
“它一直在前进，”伯利森同意道，“看起来碎片被带走了。”
“是啊。那是什么鬼东西?”纳普补充道。
伯利森说，他不打算猜测视频中的物体是什么，但问道“为什么我们一直被封锁这些信息?”
一名美国国防部官员告诉美国广播公司新闻，当被要求验证该视频以及据称拍摄的时间和地点时，“我们对此没有任何可提供的”。
当被要求对该视频发表评论时，国防部发言人说:“我没有什么可以给你的。”
五角大楼的全域异常决议办公室(AARO)继续调查由军事人员提交的UAP报告，其中一些可以追溯到几十年前。
虽然它已经能够解释一些高调的报告，但仍有许多案件无法解释，也没有发现任何事件是来自外星的。
这个新视频与2015年的一个视频类似，后来被称为“Go Fast”视频，显示了一个快速移动的物体似乎在加利福尼亚附近海域的波浪上方高速飞行。
AARO的分析师后来确定，该视频捕捉到了一个涉及气象气球的视错觉，海军F/A-18战斗机上的传感器捕捉到的高速率是由视差和相机观察物体的角度造成的。
AARO官员此前曾表示，一些较老的事件仍然无法解释，因为当时高科技军事传感器没有收集到足够的数据。由于传感器越来越复杂，更新的事件提供了更多的数据，分析师可以使用这些数据进行审查。
听证会结束时，众议员安娜·保利娜·卢娜(佛罗里达州共和党)重播了视频，并问小组成员他们是否被视频中看到的东西吓到了。所有人都同意，只有纳普例外，他回答说他很高兴视频已经发布。
Congressman shows never-before-seen video at military UFO hearing
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.
The overhead video showed a fast-moving object moving in a straight line above the waves in the waters off the coast of Yemen and captured what Burlison said was a Hellfire missile fired by another Reaper drone that appeared to strike the object.
"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.
"This is when it's zoomed out, you can still see it traveling," said Burlison who did not provide details of how he had obtained the video.
At the time that the video was purportedly taken, the waters off Yemen were an active combat zone as U.S.Navyships and aircraft protected commercial shipping lanes from missiles and drones fired at shipping vessels by the Houthi militants in Yemen.
U.S. Navy ships were regularly shooting down Houthi missiles and drones that posed a threat to them or commercial vessels.
The video raises several questions: Did it capture a potential attack on ships? Did the object pose a threat to U.S. Naval ships operating in the combat zone?
"The public should be seeing this stuff, and why you're not allowed to, I don't know," said George Knapp, an investigative journalist, who was a witness at Tuesday's hearing alongside others identified as whistleblowers of military UFO incidents.
"That's the Hellfire missile smacking into that UFO and just (bouncing)right off," he said, commenting on the video. "And it kept going."
"It kept going," Burlison agreed, "and it looks like the debris was taken with it."
"Yeah. What the hell is that?" Knapp added.
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?"
A U.S. 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.
Asked to comment on the video, a DOD spokesperson said: "I have nothing for you."
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.
The new video is similar to a 2015 video that came to be known as the "Go Fast" video that showed a fast moving object appearing to fly at a high rate of speed above the waves in the waters off of California.
AARO analysts later determined that the video had captured an optical illusion involving a weather balloon and that the high rate of speed captured by the sensors aboard a Navy F/A-18 fighter jet was due to parallax and the angle from at which the camera viewed the object.
AARO officials have said previously that some of the older incidents remain unexplained because there was not enough data gathered by high-tech military sensors at the time. Newer incidents provide more data, because of the increased sophistication of sensors, that analysts can use to review them.
At the end of the hearing, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) replayed the video and asked the panelists if they were scared by what they saw in the video. All said yes with the exception of Knapp, who replied that he was happy that the video had been released.
