WATCH: Lawmakers Reveal Video Of Hellfire Missile That Struck UFO With Little Effect

Tuesday’s Congressional hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), titled “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection,” featured extraordinary testimony — including personal encounters with airborne objects of unknown origin.

Perhaps the most striking moment came not from spoken testimony, but from a newly revealed video presented by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO). The footage shows an AGM-114 Hellfire missile fired from an MQ-9 Reaper drone at an orb-shaped UFO. Shockingly, the missile appears to bounce off the object, causing little to no damage, as the orb continues traveling at high speed. The video was reportedly recorded in October 2024 off the coast of Yemen.

Burlison noted that he had been “given” the video.

Witnesses included U.S. Air Force veterans Jeffrey Nuccetelli and Dylan Borland, Chief Alexandro Wiggins, and investigative journalist George Knapp.

Knapp added that while he had discussed the footage on a podcast, he had not seen it before the hearing. He claimed, “There are servers where there’s a whole bank of these kinds of videos that Congress has not been allowed to see, that the public hasn’t been allowed to see.”

“That’s a Hellfire missile smacking into that UFO, and just bounced right off — and it kept going,” he said.

Burlison replied: “It kept going, and it looks like the debris was taken with it.” The congressman added that while he wasn’t going “to speculate” on the exact nature of the object, he wondered why such information is being withheld from Congress.

Later in the hearing, Chair Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) asked the witnesses — while the missile video played in the background — whether they were “aware of anything in the United States government arsenal that can split a Hellfire missile like this?”

Two witnesses responded in the negative, while Borland stated he would prefer to answer that question in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility). Luna then followed up, asking if the video “scared” any of them. Three witnesses answered “yes,” though Borland began to caveat before being cut off.

BREAKING:

New UAP video shows an MQ-9 Reaper drone firing an AGM-114 Hellfire missile at an unknown object.

-The Hellfire impacts the object, which subsequently continues traveling

-*The U.S. military, apparently, cleared *kinetic action* against a UAP* pic.twitter.com/PFxvgwTduI

— MarikvR (@MvonRen) September 9, 2025

The most compelling testimony from the hearing came from former Military Police Officer Jeffrey Nuccetelli and former Geospatial Intelligence Specialist Dylan Borland. Nuccetelli described multiple UFO incursions at Vandenberg Air Force Base, as well as his own personal sighting.

“Each incident was witnessed by multiple personnel, documented, investigated, and reported up the chain of command,” Nuccetelli said. He noted that official Air Force records pertaining to a 2003 sighting by Boeing contractors of a “massive, glowing red square silently hovering above two missile defense sites” are held by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and the FBI.

Among several incidents, Nuccetelli described one involving a “massive triangular craft, larger than a football field that hovered silently” before accelerating away “at impossible speed.”

He also detailed a personal encounter: “I was off-duty, sitting in my backyard with two other police officers, and we noticed what first appeared to be a satellite in orbit — but it wasn’t acting like a satellite.”

The object, he said, maneuvered oddly before “reappeared 200 feet over my house.” He described it as a “30-foot diameter sphere of light” that soon flew away and vanished into the night sky.

Borland testified about a 2012 encounter in which he saw “an approximately 100-foot equilateral triangle take off from near the NASA hangar on the base.” He said the object interfered with his cell phone, made no sound, and “the material it was made of appeared fluid or dynamic.”

According to Borland, the craft hovered for several minutes before ascending rapidly to “commercial jet level in seconds, displaying zero kinetic disturbance, sound, or wind displacement.”

He also revealed that years later, he was made privy to “classified information from the UAP legacy crash retrieval program through a sensitive position I held within a Special Access Program.”

Borland claimed he has faced severe retaliation, including “denial of work,” “forged and manipulated employment documents, workplace harassment,” and “manipulation of my security clearance by certain agencies, blocking, delaying, and ultimately removing my ability to be employed within the IC.” He said the retaliation he and others experienced drove him to become a whistleblower.

Several lawmakers highlighted the importance of Rep. Tim Burchett’s proposed legislation, the UAP Whistleblower Protection Act (H.R. 5060), as well as the broader UAP Disclosure Act, which has repeatedly been stymied in Congress.

While perhaps not as headline-grabbing as the July 2023 testimony of whistleblower David Grusch, Tuesday’s hearing is likely to sustain public interest and continue to build momentum for UAP transparency in the political arena.

You can watch the entire hearing below: