Two leaked videos recorded by the US military purportedly show UFOs operating in the Middle East.
The radar footage, generated by Reaper drones flown by the Air Force more than 13 years ago, was released recently by reporters and prominent UFO researchers George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell.
The US Department of War and the intelligence community officially designated the flying objects to be Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), the government’s new term for UFOs.
Three lights or orbs in a triangle formation were seen moving in over the Persian Gulf on Aug. 23, 2012, one video released on Jan. 30 showed.
The objects demonstrate abrupt changes of direction and the thermographic Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) detected no heat or other signatures that mark traditional propulsion systems, according to the Knapp and Corbell report in Weaponized.
Another orb-like object was recorded by a Reaper drone on the border between Syria and Jordan in 2021, the Feb. 3 report revealed.
The strangely shaped object exhibited no heat signature but the Reaper drone’s radar was able to establish a weapons-quality lock on the target.
However, slowed-down video showed the object appears to break the targeted lock and disappears from sight.
The releases are part of the continued push by UFO disclosure advocates to release military-grade footage of encounters with non-human crafts.
Reaper drone footage of an orb being struck with a 100-pound Hellfire missile and continuing to fly was revealed by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) during a UFO disclosure hearing on Sept. 9, 2025.
The Department of War did not respond to request for comment.