On September 9, a video lasting just a few seconds went viral and caught the attention of the United States Congress. The video showed a rather grainy sequence. It was captured by a military thermal camera and appeared to be the definitive proof that UFO enthusiasts had been waiting for. The clip showed a high-precision missile heading toward a shiny spherical object. This object would now be referred to in official terminology as an unidentified anomalous phenomenon. Despite the missile, it seems to withstand the impact and there is not even an explosion. On the contrary, the missile seems to bounce or slide off, and the orb continues on its way completely unscathed.
Was this the first alien energy shield in action? Speculation ran wild, and Internet forums were abuzz with the topic. However, experts in ballistic physics and military optics offer a much more mundane, but equally interesting explanation. Unfortunately for UFO enthusiasts, this video does not show extraterrestrial technology, but rather an optical illusion and a type of missile so secret that its impact is a mystery.
The video footage
The incident was recorded off the coast of Yemen on October 30, 2024. This is a high-tension area, where US forces were actively using drones to combat threats posed by Houthi rebels. The object, a luminous “orb,” seemed to defy the known laws of physics. The weapon used was a Hellfire missile, fired from an MQ-9 Reaper drone tracking the object. The burning question was: if the missile hit its target, why didn’t it disintegrate?
The Ensi event, with the video of the impact, is supposedly real, as it was declassified and has been openly discussed in the US Congress. However, the US military has not publicly authenticated the video. This is because it reveals details about a secret operation and a little-known weapon, which they do not intend to disclose to the public as it would give the enemy information about their weapons.
Knowledge is power. Remember the saying that carrots give you good eyesight? Well, that’s a myth created by the British Royal Air Force during World War II. They didn’t want the Germans to find out that they had invented the radar, which they could use to shoot down German bombers at night, even during a new moon, when everything was pitch black. They simply claimed that they had a diet rich in carrots and had put their soldiers with the best eyesight on the front line. The same thing is happening with this missile: the Army is not going to publish any information that could give clues to other countries.
Why did it appear so fast?
The crux of the matter here is not the orb, but the camera used to record the event. To explain the event, Dr. Fred Lamb, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Illinois, was consulted. According to Dr. Lamb, this was an illusion known as “Parallax Motion.” The MQ-9 Reaper drone that was filming is flying at an operating altitude of about 25,000 feet. When a camera with very high magnification films a slowly moving object (such as a high-altitude balloon or a light drone) against a distant background (the ocean or clouds), the perspective is distorted. The object appears to be moving at high speed, but it is not.
The reality is that the orb was probably being slowly carried by the wind at high altitude. Some alternative analyses, such as that of Harvard scientist Avi Loeb, suggest that the object could have been a Samad Houthi drone; that is, a combat drone, but one that is large and slow-moving.
What appeared to be alien technology from outside our planet was actually a sophisticated secret mission. Being recorded from a strange camera angle, it produced such a curious perspective.