A missile struck and ricocheted off a UFO, according to a new video presented to the U.S. Congress.
A never-before-seen video showing a U.S. military Hellfire missile bouncing off a mysterious spherical object was the highlight of a new and explosive hearing in the U.S. Congress on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), the official term for UFOs.
During Tuesday’s hearing, three Navy and Air Force veterans testified under oath, detailing their encounters with unexplainable technology and the dire consequences they suffered for reporting them.
A missile struck and ricocheted off a UFO, according to a new video presented to the U.S. Congress.
The striking black-and-white footage, presented by Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison, was captured on October 30, 2024, by a U.S. military drone off the coast of Yemen. It shows the nearly 50-kilogram air-to-ground precision weapon hitting the orb directly, but bouncing off with no apparent damage and continuing on its trajectory at extreme speed.
Jeffrey Nuccetelli, a former Air Force military police officer with 16 years of service, called the video “exceptional evidence” of the existence of these phenomena.
During the hearing, committee chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna directly questioned the military witnesses about the footage. When asked if they knew of any technology in the American arsenal capable of withstanding a Hellfire missile strike in such a manner, both Nuccetelli and Navy Senior Petty Officer Alexandro Wiggins responded with a resounding “no.”
However, the most revealing answer came from Dylan Borland, a former Air Force intelligence specialist, who replied: “I’d prefer to answer that in a SCIF,” referring to a secure facility for discussing classified information. His response suggests he may hold sensitive knowledge about this technology that cannot be disclosed publicly.
Testimonies of retaliation and cover-up
Beyond the video, the testimonies focused on systematic retaliation against those who dared to speak out. Borland recounted how his career was “deliberately obstructed” after witnessing a 30-meter equilateral triangle taking off from Langley Air Force Base in 2012. He described the craft as silent, with a material that appeared “fluid or dynamic” which interfered with his phone before ascending to cruising altitude within seconds, without generating noise or kinetic disturbance.
Borland alleged that after reporting the incident and sharing information about classified UAP programs, he suffered “ongoing retaliation” for more than a decade, including manipulation of his security clearance, falsified employment documents, and workplace harassment, which ultimately left him unemployed.
Nuccetelli, meanwhile, detailed five incidents that occurred at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, between 2003 and 2005, a major missile defense installation. The sightings included a “huge glowing red square” silently hovering over missile bases and a “massive triangular craft larger than a football field.”
In addition, the veteran reported that after one of these close encounters, witnesses were threatened and intimidated by their superiors into keeping silent. When asked about records of these events, he stated that the Air Force routinely destroys all police logs every three years, thereby erasing any formal record.
Encounters at sea and criticism of the Pentagon office
Wiggins testified about an encounter aboard the USS Jackson on February 15, 2023, off the coast of Southern California. He observed a “Tic-Tac”-shaped object emerge from the ocean and join three other similar objects in formation. The four objects then “vanished simultaneously with almost instantaneous and synchronized acceleration,” producing no sonic boom and leaving no traces of conventional propulsion.
Criticism was also directed squarely at the Pentagon office tasked with investigating these phenomena. For instance, Congresswoman Luna accused the former director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, of being a “pathological liar” who undermined investigations, and said she would be “happy to subpoena” Kirkpatrick to testify.
The hearing also featured investigative journalist George Knapp and Joe Spielberger of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), who emphasized the government’s long history of disinformation and the critical need to protect whistleblowers to ensure governmental accountability.