Gulf of Aden

  2025 hearing anchor point

The Gulf of Aden entered the federal UAP record when the 9 September 2025 House Oversight hearing included an MQ-9 clip tied to an AGM-114 strike over an orb in this gulf.¹²³

The hearing record set post-session expectations for 2026 reporting in which full-resolution review and chain-of-custody documentation were requested for follow-on cases.⁴⁵

  2023-2024 Middle East case baseline carried into the gulf narrative

AARO's official imagery index and DoD DVIDS releases document unresolved infrared and optical anomalies in the Middle East from 2023 to 2024, a framework that informs the Gulf-of-Aden reporting posture.⁶⁷⁸

A 2022 MQ-9 Middle East orb filing remains unresolved due to absent corroborating radar and optical evidence, showing the evidentiary baseline used before the 2025 hearing review.⁹¹⁰

  Current reporting links

• /events/2025-09-09-restoring-public-trust-uap-hearing
• /events/2024-middle-east-ir-thermal-contrast
• /events/2024-middle-east-red-balloon
• /events/2022-middle-east-object

  References

  References

1. oversight.house.gov ↩

2. oversight.house.gov ↩

3. congress.gov ↩

4. congress.gov ↩

5. oversight.house.gov ↩

6. aaro.mil ↩

7. dvidshub.net ↩

8. dvidshub.net ↩

9. dvidshub.net ↩

10. dvidshub.net ↩