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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Video Shows U.S. Hellfire Missile Bouncing Off UFO [Watch (HLS stream): Video Shows U.S. Hellfire Missile Bouncing Off UFO](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GpBkIalh.m3u8) (8:28)  _Published 2025-09-10. Newly released footage shows a U.S. military drone attempting to shoot down a mysterious orb-like object in the sky. The video was shown during a House Oversight hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, transparency, held by the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. The hearing focused on testimonies from several UAP whistleblowers from within the military who shared their accounts witnessing various UAPs, and called for destigmatization and reform of the UAP reporting process._ --- Sep 10, 2025 7:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [U.S. House Holds Hearing on UAP Reports From Former NASA, Military Officials](/video/sYDO5saC/) ### U.S. House Holds Hearing on UAP Reports From Former NASA, Military Officials [Whistleblower Tells Congress U.S. Is Concealing Program That Captures UFOs](/video/QxxRUOHn/) ### Whistleblower Tells Congress U.S. Is Concealing Program That Captures UFOs [What to Know About the U.S. Missile Attack on Syria](/video/Ag8KRTse/) ### What to Know About the U.S. Missile Attack on Syria --- ## Transcript This is when it zoomed out so you can still see it traveling. We have heard from a number of whistleblowers, specifically military pilots, that the reason for not coming forward publicly is out of fear that speaking out would cost them their flight status and potentially their careers. This is unacceptable. We cannot protect our air spaces if our best trained observers are silenced. We cannot advance science if we refuse to ask questions, and we cannot maintain trust in government if we keep the American people in the dark. I'm here today because the American people have both the right and the responsibility to know the truth about unidentified aerial phenomenon. That truth remains hidden, classified, and silenced by fear, retaliation, stigma, and confusion. Today, we are here to help break that silence. Between 2003 and 2005, five UAP incidents occurred at Vandenberg Air Force Base, home to the National Missile Defense Project, a top national security priority at the time. We were conducting launches deemed by the National Reconnaissance Office as the most important in 25 years. These were historic launches. These facilities were vital and they were repeatedly visited by UAP. The incursions began on October 14th, 2003, when Boeing contractors reported a massive glowing red square silently hovering over two missile defense sites. After several minutes, it drifted further east onto the base and vanished over the hills. This event, now known as the Vandenberg Red square, was referenced by Representative Luna at the first hearing on this topic. Official Air Force records of this event are in possession by arrow and the FBI. Later that night, while I was on duty, security guards at a critical launch site reported a bright, fast moving object over the ocean. I responded to the incident. Chaos ensued over the radio as the object approached rapidly. I heard my friends screaming, it's coming right at us! It's coming right for us. And now it's right here. Moments later, I heard them say that it had shot off and was gone about a week later. Another patrol reported a light over the ocean behaving erratically. Believing it might be an unannounced aircraft, they declared an emergency and an armed response force responded before the forces could arrive. The object descended and either landed or hovered on our flight line, and then took off again at impossible speed. The witnesses to this event were threatened and intimidated. Afterward, they were told to keep quiet and think about what they were reporting. After that, things did get quiet until about 2005, when another patrol reported a massive triangular craft larger than a C-130, silently floating over the installation. He watched it for a few minutes. It traveled west and disappeared into the night. And then I had my own encounter again in 2005. I was off duty, sitting in my backyard with two other police officers when we noticed what first appeared to be a satellite in orbit, but it wasn't acting like a satellite. The light was strange, it was pulsing, and then it started to maneuver. It dropped in elevation. At times it would vanish from view and reappear in a different location in the sky. And eventually it reappeared 200ft over my house. It was a 30 foot diameter sphere of light. My friends and I watched it for a moment, and then it gently accelerated and traveled up and disappeared into the stars. These events profoundly changed my life and the lives of my friends. We stand at a pivotal moment in history. The question is no longer whether these events are real, but whether we have the courage to face them. On the evening of February 15th, 2023, at approximately 1915 PST in the whiskey 291 warning area off the coast of Southern California, I was serving on board USS Jackson. A self-luminous tic tac shaped object emerged from the ocean before linking up with three other similar objects. The four then disappeared simultaneously with a high synchronized near instantaneous acceleration. I observed no sonic boom and no conventional propulsion signatures, no exhaust plume, no control surface articulation on the sapphire image system. Shortly after the synchronized departure, radar tracks dropped. From my experience operating in this region over many years and consistent with our public characterized encounters, unidentified Objects reoccur in United States operation areas off Southern California. That fact alone does not tell us what they are, but it does argue the systematic, stigma free reporting and for the preservation of sensor data so analysts can evaluate safety and intelligence implications with rigor. Reporting without stigma, protection without retribution. Sailors need to know that reporting UAP encounters will not harm their careers. From 2011 to 2013, I was stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, conducting 24 hour operations via manned and unmanned aerial vehicles for special operations forces in the Global War on Terror. During the summer of 2012, my team was on standby for weather and I returned to my barracks on base, and at approximately zero 130, I saw an approximately 100 foot equilateral triangle take off from near the NASA hangar on the base. The craft interfered with my telephone, did not have any sound in the material it was made of appeared fluid or dynamic. I was under this triangular craft for a few minutes, and then it rapidly ascended to commercial jet level in seconds, displaying zero kinetic disturbance sound or wind displacement. Some years after that experience, I was further exposed to classified information from the UAP Legacy Crash Retrieval Program through a sensitive position I held within a special access program. During this time, intelligence officers approached me in fear for their own careers, citing misconduct within these programs and similar retaliation that I was already enduring at this time. I want to cue up a video that that I've been given and as as before it starts, I'm going to describe. This was taken October 30th of 2024. This video is of an MQ nine drone tracking an orb or this object off the coast of Yemen. Um, you'll see that another MQ nine launched a Hellfire missile that you cannot see that drone. Um, and so, uh, and I'm not going to explain it to you. You'll see exactly what it does. This is when it zoomed out so you can still see it traveling. But that's a Hellfire missile smacking into that UFO and just bounced right off. Um, and it kept going. It kept going. And it looks like the debris was taken with it. Yeah. What the hell is that? What? So again, I'm not going to speculate what it is, but the question is what? 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