A UFO flies at super speed in new footage shared by the United States Government showing "some really interesting things that everyone thought was truly anomalous."
In the second of two clips shared by the Pentagon this month, a UAP - unidentified aerial phenomena, the US's new word for UFO - an object that appeared to have a propulsion trail flew over South Asia earlier this year.
Dr Sean Kirkpatrick explained to the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities that the object was likely a "sensor artefact" and that this case is classed as "resolved".
The UAP expert told the committee an extensive report is due to be published in the summer, but that there is no definitive evidence of alien activity or intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
The hearing was shown the now-declassified footage shot from an American MQ-9 Reaper drone which 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 $28million drone, passing underneath it at high speed.
Dr Kirkpatrick, the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), showed the committee the videos to highlight how the military tracks and categorises UFOs.
"Why am I showing you this?" Kirkpatrick told the committee. "This is the kind of data we have to work with and the type of analysis we have to do, which can be extensive when you have to pull these apart frame by frame."
"Further, we're now matching all of this with models of all those imaging sensors so that I can recreate this. I can actually show how the sensor [is] going to respond."
The committee was also shown footage of an "unresolved" UFO seen in the Middle East in a conflict zone in 2022.
Of this footage, Dr Kirkpatrick said: "It happened in the Middle East last year where an MQ-9 Reaper drone spotted an apparent spherical object via electro-optical sensors.
"You will see it come through the top of the screen, it goes and the camera will slew to follow it.
"You will see it pop in and out of the screen as it goes past the field there.
"This is essentially all of the data we have associated with this event from some years ago. It is going to be virtually impossible to fully identify that, just based off of that video."
The US DoD said in a statement: "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 behaviour, the object remains unidentified."
Over 650 cases of reported UFOs are categorised into common aircraft like planes, but those that don't fit into these categories are marked by the location they are found.
"Are they attached to a national security area? Does [it] show some anomalous phenomenology that's of interest?" Dr Kirpatrick said.
"If it's just a spherical thing that's just floating around with the wind and has no payload, that's less important than something with a payload on it, and that's less important than something that's manoeuvring."
Of the 650 cases, Dr Kirkpatrick said that 52% of UFOs are spheres.
