US officials released a UFO video recorded by an MQ-9 UAV in the Middle East, one of more than 650 unusual aerial phenomena they discovered.
During a hearing before the US Senate Armed Services Committee subcommittee on April 19, the director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Sean Kirkpatrick said that the US military detected more than 650 unidentified aerial phenomena and “prioritized about half of them.”
The AARO director also released a video taken by an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the Middle East last year, showing a small, spherical UFO flying very fast over low-rise buildings. The MQ-9 Reaper’s camera was constantly adjusted to track the object’s flight path.
AARO has not identified the object due to lack of evidence other than the video. Mr. Kirkpatrick expressed hope that more data could be collected to explain the phenomenon.
Video of an unidentified flying object filmed by an MQ-9 UAV in the Middle East in 2022. Video: US Department of Defense
Another video, shot in South Asia earlier this year, showed a black contrail flying past a US MQ-9 UAV in the air. Mr Kirkpatrick said experts initially considered the video “really unusual”.
After analyzing each frame, experts determined that this was “a heat signal emitted from an aircraft moving near the area where two MQ-9 UAVs were operating.”
“We have not found any credible evidence of alien life or technology, or the ability of these objects to break the known laws of physics,” Mr. Kirkpatrick commented on the released videos.
After senators asked about the possibility that the unidentified aerial phenomena involved advanced foreign technology, Mr. Kirkpatrick said some of the videos could be evidence of this and the US intelligence community would investigate them further.
The US re-established AARO in July 2022 as part of a joint effort by the Pentagon and other federal agencies to detect, identify and classify “anomalous, unidentified objects in space, in the air, and underwater”.
Infrared signals from aircraft engines recorded by an MQ-9 UAV in South Asia earlier this year. Video: US Department of Defense
