A never-before-seen video released Tuesday by a member of Congress appears to show a U.S. military Hellfire missile bouncing off a bright, shiny object that was being tracked off the coast of Yemen on Oct. 30, 2024.
The video was released at a House Government Oversight subcommittee hearing into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), which is the military’s term for UFOs.
During the hearing Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) played a video that he said “I’ve been given” and that he claimed was taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone.
Sounds like the missile detonator was faulty.
If it’s light enough, I guess it might not be enough to trigger a Hellfire’s fuze. They’re intended for use against rather more solid targets.
There are also Hellfires that don’t carry explosive warheads. I remember some discussion about a bladed, anti-personnal variant used to minimize collateral damage, though that’s really specialized and I doubt that that was used here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire
checks Wikipedia
The R-9X.