The Pentagon released a video of a UFO flying over an active conflict zone in the Middle East in 2022
The short clip of a metallic-looking orb flying at a fast pace was shown during Wednesday's hearing before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.
The object was first seen moving from the top right of the screen to the bottom left. It temporarily disappears out of view and then briefly reappears.
"This is essentially all the data we have of this event," said Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). "It's going to be virtually impossible to fully identify that just based off that video."
The 2022 Middle East orb is considered an "unresolved case," Kirkpatrick told lawmakers, and the footage reminded Jeremy Corbell of the "Mosul Orb," a similar-looking metallic orb recorded by a U.S. spy plane flying over Mosul, Iraq, in 2016.
Corbell, an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who was the only civilian named during Congress' historic UAP hearing in May 2022, shared an image of the 2016 "Mosul Orb" with Fox News Digital during an interview in February.
The issue of UAPs — Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, which is the government-created word for UFO — in an active conflict zone creates potential problems because combatants don't know whose assets they are, Corbell said.
It "evokes an additional level of concern due to the probability of unintended crossfire," Corbell told Fox News Digital after watching Wednesday's hearing. "The potential for misidentification could be devastating and should be a call to action for the safety of our service members."
Kirkpatrick included an infographic during his presentation that shows how the 2022 Middle East sighting of a metallic orb is consistent with "other metallic orb observations in the region."
There's "no demonstration of enigmatic technical capabilities, and no apparent threat to airborne-asset safety," according to Kirkpatrick's presentation.
"This admission causes me to reflect on the ‘Mosul Orb’ image that George Knapp and I obtained and release on our program WeaponizedPodcast.com," Corbell said.
"As you know, we are shooting things down over the United States of America now without really identifying them before we shoot them down," he said during February's interview, in reference to the four aerial objects, including a Chinese spy balloon, that were shot down in American airspace.
"The rules of engagement of how and why we can fire upon objects are completely being rewritten right now."
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