WEIRD ENCOUNTERS: US Releases Drone Footage Of UFO

This is the out-of-this-world moment a US Reaper drone records a spherical UFO whizzing below it in the Middle East.Show more

US military officials - who will not say where exactly the footage was filmed - have admitted they do not know what the object was or where it came from.

The now-declassified footage - shot from an American MQ-9 Reaper drone - appears to be monitoring a group of people in a desert setting.

But just seconds into the footage a flying orb comes hurtling towards the USD 28 million drone, passing underneath it at high speed.

The movement is picked up by the drone's hi-tech camera, which switches targets and begins following the mysterious globe.

The orb appears to be a dead ringer for some of the small UFOs used in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The footage was obtained from the US Department of Defense, who says it was filmed somewhere in the Middle East on 12th July 2022.

It was declassified and made public on Wednesday, 19th April.

The US DoD said in a statement obtained by Newsflash: "In an open hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 19, Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), shared a video that depicts an apparent silver, orb-like object cross the sensor’s field of view.

"This clip was taken by an MQ-9 in the Middle East, and while AARO assesses the object in the clip is not exhibiting anomalous behavior, the object remains unidentified.

"This video is a representative example of many of the cases AARO receives where there is limited data surrounding the observation.

"These cases are retained in AARO’s active archive pending the discovery of additional information/data that may lead to case resolution."

The case remains unresolved due to a lack of data, with the US DoD saying "the object remains unidentified".