When a Hellfire Missile Meets a UFO: An Unexplained Incident

This week's top creature feature took place during the latest congressional UFO hearing in Washington when those in attendance viewed a military video taken off the coast of Yemen last year, showing a Hellfire missile attacking a UAP/UFO, where the detonated missile appeared to simply bounce off the object. First, I'm not sure about the wisdom of firing on something unknown, but maybe there was more going on than we know.

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Second, if this video didn't finally make a case for all of those reported incidents from at least World War II and going forward -- usually doubted by the skeptics -- of incidents where military pilots all but swore on their very lives that they KNOW they fired and made contact with things in the sky resulting in no apparent effect or damage whatsoever (except for cases where the pilots themselves were allegedly affected by intense heat sources after gaining on such objects), I don't know what will.

A close observation of this week's main video isn't required to note also that as the missile apparently hit its mark some smaller objects seem to have separated from the UFO -- which, unaffected, immediately followed the primary object as it soared along.

Reaching back to the early sixties, I fondly remember my file folders stuffed with letters from government officials and various authorities pretty much denying the very existence of UFOs. At least those days may meet a well-deserved end. We hope.

So what exactly was going on in that military video? Does established (or crazy) science have a clue? As we're all forced to bow to artificial intelligence, and risks to humans not yet imagined likely to accompany its progress, will AI make perfect sense out of the often nonsensical appearing UFO quagmire?

The video:

I don't know what's going on, but I had a thought or two, ASSUMING this is a real video of a genuine unknown.. For instance, did the UFO have an ability to "read" everything about the missile before it even struck? Did the object have a quality wherein it knew everything about the missile just as it hit, allowing a fractional split-second response? A precognitive sense? Did it know what the drone's pilot was thinking? We're already familiar with instances where UFOs appear to have locked on to and/or comprehended real-time conventional aircraft instrumentation well in advance of evasive or confrontational action initiated by human pilots.

Mirrors. I wondered. A mirror reflects an image. Does the UFO possess some technological mirror, somehow reflecting externally or internally what it encounters at light speed, duplicating what it then knows in order to react accordingly and swiftly? I suppose this would require some kind of protective external layer of plasma or electricity or whatever on the UFO, but like most mirrors busted into pieces by a smashing blow there would still be support structures behind them.

Could a UFO mimic precisely one and all the things it encounters in the sky to protect its environment? If atoms and molecules and substances of which we are perhaps unaware can be manipulated so that something as elaborate as a guided missile can instantly be detected in terms of force, mass and exact effects, can the mysterious sky-born enigma conjure up a similar force to cancel out its destructive qualities? A mirror image of what exists, in essence, causing said missile to collide with a duplicate, a clone if you will, of itself in an intricately altered space-time continuum, causing damage primarily to the dispensed missile?

In the realm of the impossible, is it possible that the UFO's very structure is composed so differently from our own aircraft that the meeting of missile and object have little or nothing in common with one another? Are UFOs like M&M candies, protected by a hard, impervious shell to keep the contents blissfully unaware of external forces? Exactly what keeps the strange objects out of harm's way, no matter what we throw at them? Can they be here and not here at the same time?

Anyway, this would be something for the physicists to contemplate, aside from historians perhaps mulling over troublesome theories of whether the UFO phenomenon's bright and shiny objects account for the origin of favored religions on Earth.

Beware or entertain the theories of an aging crackpot, but let's continue bringing on the military videos and films! If little else at the moment, science has been confounded by the UFO/UAP, and some of its cherished tenets appear to have been turned upside-down. Are we ready for more, or shall the UFO phenomenon remain the smiling Cheshire cat of the skies?

See Also:

	Bombshell UFO/UAP Claims and New Footage at Congressional Hearing
	UFO HEARING: Close Encounters with UFOs Described by Ex-Navy Fighter Pilot
	Opening Witness Statements For UFO / UAP Congressional Hearing

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Bombshell UFO/UAP Claims and New Footage at Congressional Hearing

In a highly anticipated hearing titled "Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection," held on September 9, 2025, a House Oversight Task Force convened to scrutinize the U.S. government's handling of Unidentified

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Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) AKA UFOs. The session, which featured compelling witness testimony and the public unveiling of new startling UAP footage, underscored a growing congressional push for greater transparency and robust protections for those who come forward with information.

Chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets framed the hearing as a critical step towards holding government agencies accountable and rebuilding public trust. The overarching message from lawmakers and witnesses alike was clear: the era of secrecy surrounding UAPs must end, and individuals within the military and government who report these phenomena should be safeguarded, not silenced.

Eyewitness Accounts and Allegations of Retaliation

The hearing featured a diverse panel of witnesses, including U.S. Air Force veterans, a senior policy counsel at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), an active-duty U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer (Operations Specialist) and seasoned Chief Investigative Reporter for KLAS-TV and longtime Ufologist, George Knapp. Their testimonies painted a picture of not only a long history of UAP/UFO encounters, but very recent incredible reports encased in a culture where reporting such incidents can lead to professional repercussions.

Chief Petty Officer Chief Alexandro Wiggins, provided a firsthand, fascinating account of a "Tic Tac-shaped" object emerging from the ocean (transmedium). The UFO was accompanied by 3 similar objects detected on multiple sensors, including radar, and video was recorded inside CIC using a Star SAFIRE multi-spectral EO/IR system. Wiggins stressed the critical need for "de-stigmatized channels" within the military to allow service members to report UAP encounters without fear of career damage or ridicule. His testimony highlighted the psychological and professional burden placed on those who witness unexplained phenomena.

Former “1N1” geospatial intelligence specialist for the U.S. Air Force, Dylan Borland stated that his professional career was "deliberately obstructed, and I have endured sustained reprisals from government agencies for more than a decade" after disclosing his own UAP experience at Langley Air Force Base in 2012. Such accounts resonate with a broader narrative among UAP proponents who argue that fear of reprisal has long suppressed valuable information.

Unveiling New Footage and Escalating Concerns

One of the most dramatic moments of the hearing came with the public release of new UAP/UFO footage by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO). The video purportedly shows a U.S. military drone engaging a high-speed orb off the coast of Yemen in October 2024, with a Hellfire missile reportedly bouncing off the object. While the authenticity and full context of the footage remain subjects of ongoing discussion, its public presentation in a congressional setting marks a significant escalation in the official acknowledgment of UAP encounters.

This footage, alongside expert commentary from investigative journalist George Knapp and additional testimony from U.S. Air Force Veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli, contributed to a sense of urgency among lawmakers. The implication that UAPs may not only be present but could also be demonstrating advanced capabilities beyond current human understanding, further fueled calls for serious investigation and open disclosure.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle emphasized the need for tangible legislative action. The calls included:

• Increased Transparency: Demands for government agencies to declassify and release UAP-related information currently withheld from the public and Congress.

• Ending Over-classification: A push to reform classification protocols that may be unnecessarily shrouding UAP data.

• Strengthened Whistleblower Protections: Proposals for robust legal frameworks to safeguard individuals who come forward with information about UAPs, ensuring they are protected from professional retaliation, harassment, or intimidation.

The hearing served as a powerful signal that UAP/UFOs are no longer a fringe topic relegated to speculative discussions. With compelling eyewitness testimony, new evidence, and a unified congressional push, the movement for UAP/UFO transparency and accountability appears to be gaining unprecedented momentum, moving from the shadows into the mainstream political discourse. The push for restoring public trust through open dialogue and protected disclosures marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing exploration of phenomena that continue to defy easy explanation.

See Also:

	UFO HEARING: Close Encounters with UFOs Described by Ex-Navy Fighter Pilot
	Lawmakers Warned, UFOs / UAP Are a Potential Threat To National Security | Congressional Hearing
	Opening Witness Statements For UFO / UAP Congressional Hearing

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Archival Interview: A Young George Knapp on UFOs and Government Secrecy

We've all seen so many people in this field where you've, you know, they want to convince you, you've got to believe. Uh I'm more of the opinion you put out the information and and let people make up their minds.

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I wrote to President Carter to ask him a couple of questions and uh that that's another that's a whole other line is I never got through to him either. I wrote to virtually every NASA astronaut who has ever been associated with this phenomenon and never got a single response from any of them. You'd figure you'd at least get a form letter back and never got anything. I wrote uh I'm very disappointed with the Freedom of Information Act, how effective that is, too, because I didn't get diddly out of that. Wrote to NASA knowing that they had a certain body of information. I asked for all of it. Well, here it is. Here's all of it. And 6 months later, somebody else asks for all of it, and they got a lot bigger pile of all of it than I got. So, I I think, you know, there's very few checks and balances on that. They give you what they want in that system.

Some of the information is very disturbing. Um, it changes the way you view things. It changes the way you look at everything once this once it hits you, what really is going on? And uh I think the government could be right in a sense that that if the story came out in its entirety, if the president went on television and said, "They're here. We can't do anything about it." That it would shake our foundations. It would shake our belief in religion and shake our belief in in government. Maybe people would stop paying their taxes because it would change the way we view everything.

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Fmr Lt. Robert M. Jacobs Who Captured UFO On Film Takes AARO To Task

Messing With an American Hero

"I will not, however stand-by and let them defame and slander an American hero, fighter pilot, test pilot, photo interpreter, then-Major Florenze J. Mansmann, later Stanford Research Fellow, Doctor Florenze J, Mansmann, PhD. ..."

Dr. Bob Jacobs has asked me to forward this statement to members of AARO, past and present. It is also being sent to other interested parties, including prominent journalists, and will be posted at The UFO Chronicles website–Robert Hastings My name is Robert M. “Bob” Jacobs, PhD. I am Full Professor Emeritus in Communication at Bradley University located in Peoria, Illinois.

By Robert Jacobs 8-1-2025

Among many other things before this, I was First Lieutenant Robert M Jacobs, Officer in Charge of the Photo-Optical Instrumentation Section of the 1369th Photographic Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base. My section of 135 NCOs and Airmen provided high-speed motion picture coverage of every single ICBM launched down the Western Test Range from about 30 cameras located on and around the launch pad, as well four-to-six high-speed, long focal length lensed cameras mounted on trackers from three different locations around the pad.

During my three-and-one-half-year tenure there I became extremely well adept at analyzing thousands of feet of film showing up close and personal views of missiles launching and flying off to wherever. I’ve attached a copy of one of my Officer Efficiency Reports (OERs) to demonstrate the confidence my superior officers had in my performance of duties. I was also awarded The Air Force Guided Missile Badge for “Making a significant contribution to America’s Missile and Space Program.” I wrote a report entitled, “Deliberate Deception: A Critical Analysis of the Curious Events at Vandenberg Air Force Base in September, 1964.” It was published in The MUTUAL UFO Journal, Number 249, January 1989.

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I wrote that piece to clarify and specify what had been reported first in 1982 in a badly butchered version of my statement in the National Enquirer rag. That article had stimulated a flurry of calls and letters from “researchers” around the country. I stand behind the UFO Journal piece.

In short, many know that I reported having been in-charge of a new tracking site that I made near Anderson Peak at Big Sur, California. Corporate engineers from aerospace companies, the builders of the missiles, wanted to know if we could provide tracking coverage showing missile in flight downrange from a side view. I found such a site and began showing coverage that delighted those engineers.

One day I got a call from Major Florenze J. Mansmann, chief photo analyst in the Office of the Chief Scientist at the First Strategic Aerospace Division Headquarters on base. I had worked with Major Mansmann a number of times on other projects. He informed me that a new device for tracking missiles was being flown out from Cape Canaveral to our Big Sur site. I was dispatched to meet what was the Boston University Telescope and its creator Doctor Walt Manning.

My team and I did so, helped install the impressive scope on site and a day or two later, we captured on film a UFO firing four beams of light and disabling one of our dummy nuclear reentry vehicles in near-space on a trajectory to Eniwetok Lagoon. “Deliberate Deception” provides details of that event.

Some years later now, I received a note from a friend showing me that Wikipedia has published a factoid that Big Sur was all a mistake and that I had simply misinterpreted what I saw, even after analyzing hundreds of other film images of missiles in flight, and that my account—after numerous retellings by me in writing, in podcasts, TV series, a motion picture, and personal testimonies including to AARO—has been dismissed by that august body as my having mistaken what I saw as chaff and a few decoys of ours. This conclusion, reached by the then-AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick, is based on an article from the “esteemed” publication, Skeptical Enquirer, authored by the late Kingston A. George.

He was a civilian analyst who did, in fact, participate in bringing the BU Telescope to Vandenberg. He was on the site when the tool arrived, and we had pictures taken together to prove it. I never saw him again after that day, but I did read a report he issued after the experiments with it were over. In response to my MUFON article, he was solicited by the guy who ran Skeptical Enquirer to rebut me. George did so by testifying that he knew of an ‘anomaly’ on one Atlas launch code named, “Buzzing Bee” and that it involved some “chaff” and the releases of “decoys” and that he saw this film “a couple of weeks after the launch” and I believe him. However, “Buzzing Bee” was NOT the event that I filmed.

Mine, on 15 September 1964 was code named, “Butterfly Net” and my account of the UFO event in it has been verified by Major Mansmann and others who have actually seen the film image, including Lue Elizondo.

George’s testimony that he saw my film a couple of weeks later has been proven not to be true. And that is simply because, as Major Mansmann testified in writing, that film was snipped from the reel with a pair of scissors and taken back East that very day by the CIA. That film was never at Vandenberg after that day so, as Lt. Colonel Tim Phillips of AARO has falsely reported, they could not have recently gone back to Vandenberg, recovered the original 35mm and 45mm original film and verified George’s account. Well, there never was any 45mm film, and there was no 35mm or 16mm film left at Vandenberg for Tim or Sean to have looked at.

Period. They lied.

So, I am now relegated to the scrapheap of morons reporting on UFOs. Another victim of the ongoing, orchestrated campaign of propaganda and disinformation from our own government.

Tim and Sean may not have seen my film images. But other contemporaries have. It still exists, as Lue assured me.

My train is nearing the end of its long run sooner than I would have liked. At that moment of checking-out I would like to know that someone finally cleans out the barrel at AARO, DoD and the rest, and that full disclosure comes to the land. Asked by someone recently if I believed in UFOs. I said, “Certainly not. I believe in many things because I can’t know them based on lack of evidence. I do KNOW things though, and that transcends believing in them. I know, full-well that UFOs are real. They have been here a long time. I also know I filmed one committing what would have been an act of war by any terrestrial adversary.

And revealing that one event has cost me my honor, reputation, a couple of teaching jobs, an explosion in my mailbox, evil phone calls in the night and brooding anger at the pinheads who slander, defame, belittle, and deride anyone who makes them quiver in their cubbyholes by challenging their paradigm.

I will not, however stand-by and let them defame and slander an American hero, fighter pilot, test pilot, photo interpreter, then-Major Florenze J. Mansmann, later Stanford Research Fellow, Doctor Florenze J, Mansmann, PhD who examined my film frame-by-frame with a jewelers loupe and described in writing, in detail, the flying saucer-shaped UFO with a dome on top moving into position to fire beams of light four times, striking the reentry vehicle.

Damn you Sean Kirkpatrick, damn you Timmy Phillips you cowardly scum. I knew him well. You bozos did not. How dare you dismiss his verification of my account based on a mistake made by Kingston George. I can only hope that the preponderance of evidence catches up with you one day and proves “what fools you mortals be.”

See Also:

	Officer Who Filmed UFO Downing Missile Sets the Record Straight
	Big Sur UFO Film: Government Whistleblower Reveals He Watched It
	Mansmann Letters

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New Results on the Extraterrestrial Mysterious Wow! Signal

Arecibo Wow! (AWOW) is a technosignature research project, which utilizes archived data from the Arecibo Observatory’s telescopes to investigate the nature of signals similar to the famous Wow! Signal detected in 1977 by Ohio State University’s

By The UFO Chronicles 8-26-2025

Big Ear radio telescope. The project aims to both identify these signals and provide robust astrophysical explanations for their origins, thereby contributing to the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence and clarifying the causes of technosignature false positives.

The original Wow! Signal, characterized by pronounced intensity and narrow bandwidth near the 1420 MHz hydrogen line, has intrigued scientists for decades due to its apparent artific and inability to be replicated in subsequent observations. Despite many follow-up efforts, the source or mechanism behind this signal remained elusive, fueling speculation about its extraterrestrial provenance.

AWOW builds on the context of the Ohio State observations by applying similar methods, frequencies, and bandwidths to archived data from Arecibo’s 305-meter and 12-meter telescopes, focusing on drift scans conducted between February and May 2020 at 1420 MHz. The primary goal is to locate and analyze signals possessing the same narrowband characteristics as the Wow! Signal to determine their likely astrophysical origins.

To the dismay of UFO or ET hypothesis mavens the project’s first results report the detection of several narrowband (≤10 kHz) signals proximate to the hydrogen line, echoing the Wow! Signal’s qualities yet two orders of magnitude less intense and present in various sky locations. However, further analysis identifies these signals as emissions from small interstellar clouds of cold atomic hydrogen (HI) located within our galaxy. The research proposes that transient astronomical events, specifically bursts of radiation such as magnetar flares or soft gamma repeaters (SGRs), can trigger a sudden brightness in the hydrogen line, potentially producing a maser flare or emission through superradiance mechanisms. These natural phenomena match all observed characteristics of the Wow! Signal.

The main hypothesis championed by the AWOW team is that the original Wow! Signal was not evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence but rather a consequence of a hydrogen maser-like flare in a cold HI cloud, caused by a powerful transient source such as a magnetar. Crucially, the trigger beam responsible for the event may go undetected due to variables like distance and angle of emission. This framework offers a comprehensive astrophysical explanation, introduces a new class of false positives for technosignature searches, and suggests the Wow! Signal may be the inaugural documented astronomical maser flare at the hydrogen line.

AWOW’s systematic analysis covered observed targets such as Teegarden’s Star, Luyten’s Star, Barnard’s Star, Ross 128, TRAPPIST-1, Proxima Centauri, Tau Ceti, and K2-18. The team, comprised of scientists from multiple institutions, intends to expand on these findings with future publications and continued data analysis. Star maps created as part of the project detail the locations of potentially habitable worlds and key technosignature events, integrating resources from NASA and the PHL Habitable Worlds Catalog.

The AWOW project advances understanding of the Wow! Signal’s origins by presenting a credible astrophysical explanation grounded in archival data and theoretical modeling. By attributing the signal to stimulated hydrogen emission triggered by rare astronomical events, the researchers provide a significant paradigm shift for technosignature detection methodology and highlight the complex interplay between natural phenomena and search protocols for intelligent life.

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See Also:

	The 'Wow!' Signal: One Man's Search for SETI's Most Tantalizing Trace of Alien Life
	The Hunt for Alien Life is Discussed at Congressional Hearing | VIDEO
	Hunt for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Joined by China’s FAST Radio Telescope

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