New video from a US military drone has captured what UFO investigators are calling a formation of mysterious orbs flying over one of the most contentious regions in the world.
Jeremy Corbell, investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and co-host of the WEAPONIZED Podcast, revealed footage this week allegedly obtained from intelligence sources that captured three objects flying over the Persian Gulf on August 23, 2012.
The minute-long recording was taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone being operated by the US Air Force while it was using its infrared sensors just after 6pm local time.
According to Corbell and podcast co-host George Knapp, the Pentagon described these three lights as ‘orbs’ flying in formation instead of coming from one triangular-shaped object.
In the video, one of the lights could be seen suddenly dropping back behind the other two, before seemingly being slingshot forward to lead the group.
Corbell added that the orbs appeared to be flying in an almost ‘playful’ manner and were intelligently coordinated, maintaining equal distances without any visible wings, tails, fins, or engine exhaust of any kind.
He pointed out that the leaked recording clearly showed unidentified flying objects displaying one of the ‘five observable’ behaviors often linked to UFOs – unusual flight movements that defy basic physics.
In this case, the one orb moving between the other two exhibited clear signs of instant acceleration without any visible thrust, something human aircraft haven’t publicly shown an ability to do.
Leaked military video from 2012 revealed three orbs captured flying over the Persian Gulf
In a breakdown of the sighting, Corbell noted that the US Department of War officially designated the orbs as ‘UAP,’ which stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and is the new term for UFOs.
The video was reportedly placed in a separate archive specifically for evidence of non-human craft or objects that clearly weren’t birds, balloons, or other explainable items.
The WEAPONIZED Podcast hosts added that the credibility of the sighting was indisputable, since the footage was taken by the military, using technology that accumulates more data than a standard camera or an everyday person’s smartphone.
‘This is a military recorded sensor-generated image of what looks like a triangular UFO, like one big triangular craft with dots on each of the three ends. And clearly, you watch this, and that’s not what it is,’ Knapp said in the January 30 episode.
‘Your government has labeled this UAP, and you were never supposed to see this footage,’ Corbell added.
The two men noted that the area where this recording was made, between Saudi Arabia and Iran, has become a hotspot for UAP activity in recent years, with personnel on US Navy vessels in the region reporting multiple encounters with bright objects in the sky.
In one incident allegedly recounted to Corbell, an unknown object flooded the bridge of a Navy ship with extremely intense light, so bright that a commanding officer claimed she raised her hand to shield her eyes, but she couldn’t see her own hand in front of her face.
In another incident recently revealed during a bombshell hearing in Washington, military drone footage captured the moment a Hellfire missile struck and merely bounced off the hull of a UFO flying over the nearby country of Yemen.
The video of the orbs was taken by a US Air Force Reaper drone between Saudi Arabia and Iran
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The black-and-white video captured the 100-pound class air-to-ground precision weapon bouncing off the mysterious orb, which continued traveling at extreme speed off the coast of Yemen, roughly 1,000 miles away from the Persian Gulf.
Witness Jeffrey Nuccetelli, a former Air Force military police officer for 16 years, called the Hellfire video ‘exceptional evidence’ of the existence of UFOs.
‘I imagine there are members of Congress that would like to see it, who I don’t even know if they’ve asked to see the repository of UAP videos that we’ve mentioned to them in the past,’ Knapp said.
‘But it must be frustrating for them to know that this kind of stuff exists and they’re not allowed to poke into it or get a glimpse of it at all.’
Officially, the US government and the Pentagon have declared that there has never been any physical evidence recovered that proves UFOs or extraterrestrial beings exist.
The podcast hosts noted that ARRO, the Pentagon department in charge of reviewing all UAP incidents, has released very few videos showing clear UFO sightings, despite whistleblower footage continuing to be leaked to the public.
