We have long whispered about the “Five Observables” and the theoretical capabilities of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). But on September 9, 2025, the theoretical became kinetic. During a historic House Oversight Committee hearing, the world witnessed what military insiders have fiercely debated behind closed doors for a decade: a direct, kinetic engagement between a U.S. military asset and a non-human craft.
→ The October 30 Incident
The footage is grainy, monochrome and terrifyingly clear in its implications. Dated October 30, 2024, the declassified video was captured by the sensor suite of an MQ-9 Reaper drone operating off the coast of Yemen. The target was not a Houthi insurgent or a weapons cache but a metallic, spherical object hovering with eerie stillness against the chaotic backdrop of a conflict zone.
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) introduced the footage to a stunned hearing room. It shows a second MQ-9 drone obtaining a lock on the orb. A Hellfire missile—the apex of modern precision strike technology—is launched. In any conventional engagement, the outcome is a foregone conclusion: impact, detonation and obliteration.
Instead, the laws of physics seemed to bend. The missile struck the orb and simply… bounced. There was no explosion. No debris field. The sphere did not crumple or fall. It absorbed the kinetic energy of a Mach 1.3 impact and continued its trajectory, seemingly unaffected. As former Pentagon intelligence official Lue Elizondo noted during the analysis, “We’ve never seen a Hellfire missile hit a target and bounce off.”
→ Physics of the Impossible
This incident forces us to confront the terrifying reality of the technology we are facing. A Hellfire missile is designed to penetrate armor and destroy fortified structures. When it strikes a solid object, the kinetic transfer alone should be catastrophic. For an object to deflect such a strike implies one of two possibilities:
- The object possesses a structural integrity that exceeds any known material science on Earth.
- The craft is protected by a localized field—gravitational or electromagnetic—that redirected the missile’s energy at the point of impact.
The lack of a detonation is equally baffling. Did the orb dampen the explosive trigger? Or did the missile fail to recognize it had hit a valid surface? This “Invincible Orb” displayed a passive defense capability that renders our most sophisticated air-to-ground weaponry obsolete.
→ The Shift to Kinetic Engagement
For years, the narrative has been that UAP are observers. They watch our nuclear silos, shadow our carrier groups and monitor our wars. The Yemen incident shatters that passive image. We are no longer just watching them. We are shooting at them. And we are missing.
This raises urgent questions about the Rules of Engagement (ROE). Who authorized the strike? Was the orb displaying hostile intent or was this a “capability probe” by U.S. forces to test the vulnerability of these craft? The fact that a Hellfire was expended suggests a decision was made at a high level to treat this object as a threat. The failure of that strike is a message we cannot ignore.
→ A New Reality
The September 2025 hearing will go down in history not just for the whistleblowers who testified but for the visual proof that ended the debate on UAP physicality. These are not glitches. They are not sensor ghosts. They are solid, tangible machines that can shrug off our deadliest weapons like a mosquito bite.
As we move deeper into 2026, the implications of the Yemen Orb linger over every military strategy session in the Pentagon. If we cannot shoot them down, we cannot control our airspace. Disclosure is no longer about confirming their existence. It is about admitting our own vulnerability.