DISCLOSURE / FILE
AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick declassified an MQ-9 Reaper drone video of a spherical metallic orb over the Middle East during his April 19, 2023 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.
AARO Senate Armed Services Committee Briefing, Middle East Metallic Orb Video Declassified, DOD_109584445.mp4, Middle East Object video
AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick declassified an MQ-9 Reaper drone video of a spherical metallic orb over the Middle East during his April 19, 2023 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.
On April 19, 2023, AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick testified before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities and released a previously classified MQ-9 Reaper drone video showing a spherical metallic object transiting over a location in the Middle East. The clip is the first newly declassified UAP video released under the AARO era, which began when the office was stood up in July 2022 to succeed the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. The released file, DOD_109584445.mp4, depicts the orb in infrared from the drone's targeting sensor. The document set provided here is the video itself with no extracted page text.