An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors. It appears in several of the archive's cases. In 2018, near Naval Air Station Sigonella, a U.S. Air Force platform recorded an object apparently passing through a volcanic plume. Captions call the aircraft an MQ-9 Reaper, though AARO has never named the type. July 12, 2022. A Reaper's daylight camera caught a small, shimmering silver orb zipping above houses and fields in the Middle East. The Pentagon's AARO released the footage in 2023. Then came 30 October 2024. Off Yemen, a Reaper's infrared sensor locked onto a glowing object while a second Reaper prepared to fire.
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