@wonder2wonder said:

_"The Pentagon released a newly declassified video of a UFO soaring above the Middle East last year during a Senate hearing on Wednesday."

"The footage captured by a US military drone shows a mysterious spherical object zooming across the sky above an active military zone."

"Officials don’t know what the fast-moving orb is, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), revealed as he played the video during a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing."

• Pentagon releases video of UFO flying over active combat zone in Middle East | New York Post - Video

• U.S. tracking more than 650 potential UFOs, Pentagon official says - Video

... Excerpts from Pentagon releases video of UFO flying over active combat zone in Middle East - Article:

The Pentagon released a newly declassified video of a UFO soaring above the Middle East last year during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

The footage captured by a US military drone shows a mysterious spherical object zooming across the sky above an active military zone.

Officials don’t know what the fast-moving orb is, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), revealed as he played the video during a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing.

“This is essentially all the data we have of this event,” Kirkpatrick said. “It’s going to be virtually impossible to fully identify that just based off that video.”

He noted, however, that AARO doesn’t believe the object presented any “apparent threat to airborne-asset safety” in his presentation.

He said the incident is one of about 650 reported sightings of UPAs or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — the government term for UFOs — the recently formed office is investigating.

Despite the unexplained sightings, Kirkpatrick said there is no suggestion of alien activity.

“AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics,” he said at the hearing.

Most UPAs turn out to be “balloons, aerial systems, clutter, natural phenomena or other readily explainable sources,” Kirkpatrick added.

Wednesday’s hearing and presentation was only the second public government meeting about UFOs in the last 50 years

... From Twitter:

Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell
@JeremyCorbell

For those asking - the METALLIC ORB UAP video used in demonstration today at the UFO hearing by Dr. Kirkpatrick is NOT the MOSUL ORB video.

MOSUL ORB was filmed in 2016 / this new video is from 2022.

"UAP characteristics and behavior consistent with other 'metallic orb' observations in the region"

Why not release the MOSUL ORB video @DoD_AARO?

7:45 pm · 19 Apr 2023

... From Twitter:

UAP James
@UAPJames

AARO Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick shows UAP footage of a metallic sphere captured over the Middle East in 2022.

The object remains unidentified.

5:40 pm · 19 Apr 2023

Obviously "The Plain Language Action and Information Network (PLAIN) has not done its job.

@FormerlyKnownAs: Wow! I had not heard anything about this, but I wonder why the Pentagon would release a video of a UFO and say it's from 2022 when it can pretty much be proven that it's from 2016.

@SecretaryIMF said:

@FormerlyKnownAs: Wow! I had not heard anything about this, but I wonder why the Pentagon would release a video of a UFO and say it's from 2022 when it can pretty much be proven that it's from 2016.

Can't say!

But, what I DO KNOW is that in the government many-will-sign-off on something based on the signature of one. That is, if the person who is supposed to be the expert makes a misstep, who are higher ranked...but less knowledgeable...will MORE THAN LIKELY sign off on it.

@FormerlyKnownAs: Well that explains EVERYTHING! 🤯🤔😎