If you think something might be of extra-terrestrial origin, I don't think shooting missiles at it is a good idea. It sounds like a good way to end humans.
If you think something is just a balloon, I don't think you waste a missile on it either.
I have to assume that the ones giving the orders to the pilots assume that it is technology from an adversarial nation.
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After the missile goes through whatever it is the laser designation goes through where it used to be and is now designating the ocean (you can see the rage numbers change in the lower right) so maybe the missile movement is just it starting to maneuver to direct towards the new target designation?
Or part of what it went through was hard enough it damaged or tore off or entangled one of the missile's fins?
Hellfire missiles are more intended for anti-armour aren't they? So not surprised the missile didn't detonate. They also aren't very fast as far as missiles go so it's not like it could chase something down that's going exotically fast.
All that kind of full telemetry (actual speeds, fin positions, sensor data) is would be helpful in further supporting or refuting claims about these videos.
Houthi drone seems like it's at least plausible without further info.
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Leaked UFO video raises big questions: Alien tech or foreign drone test? | Opinion
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Not so fast, says Adam Frank, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester whose research delves into Theoretical Astrophysics, and in particular the hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic evolution of matter.
Frank said there are way too many unknowns to make any sort of scientific declaration based on what he described as a "grainy video with blobs on it that comes with a predigested story."
"If you really want to know what it is, you've got to do a proper investigation of it," he said. "That means knowing what time of day is it? What instrument is being used? Where is the sun when this is happening? Right now that can't be answered. We're just given this thing and we're told it's an amazing mystery."
"It's not like you see the missile hit whatever the thing was and explode in a giant explosion and then the thing propagates away from it like in one of those science fiction movies," Frank said.
"It looks like it's a glancing blow right which means that the targeting wasn't that great. What you see is the missile's trajectory changes like it it clearly knocks into something and it diverts the path. You see it move, so this is not some kind of super alien technology which is impervious to anything, it kind of behaves like you might expect something to behave if it got a glancing blow from a fast moving object."
OK, so maybe it's not from outer space. But what the heck is it?
Biologists identify it as Clathrus archeri fungus (Devil's Fingers), not alien life. No scientific verification of extraterrestrial origins; widely considered a hoax. Latest: The man claims it's still growing in his safe, sent samples for testing, but no results as of Sep 15, 2025. Video doesn't show AI generation signs.
Dude is driving around with a mushroom in his safe.
