UAP Hellfire? Otherworldly technology?
UFO Hellfire 2025

What happened off the coast of Yemen recently should shock the synapse circuits in our brains. An unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) was spotted by a US military drone. Then a Hellfire missile was fired at the unknown. Direct hit. But, there was no destructive explosion. Instead, the UAP was merely nudged off its course. Then, like a mother giving birth to triplets, the unknown vehicle spat out three smaller craft, which then followed the mothership on its way.

The entire UAP Hellfire incident was filmed by the drone. To see the original incident, combined with an analysis by MrMBB333, click here.

The video of the UAP Hellfire incident was shown to the US Congress last week. On September 9, 2025, the House of Representatives hosted a hearing, Restoring Public Trust Through UFO/UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection.  The UFO disclosure movement is now vigorously prosecuted by sparkling attorney Danny Sheehan and the New Paradigm Institute. Those testifying included journalist George Knapp and three UFO witnesses. Both those testifying and congressional interrogators mused that the US military has no technology with the capability exhibited in the UAP Hellfire collision.

UAP Hellfire and Heavenly Technology

Since the birth of the contemporary UFO phenomenon in 1947, we have been stunned again and again by the antics of a superior technology invading our skies. Because such technology appears to be advanced well beyond the achievements of every known terrestrial technology, we have speculated that an extraterrestrial technology is responsible for what we witness. This has given rise to the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), a most tantalizing and exciting speculation.

Like a backyard lemon tree sprouting leathery leaves and tasty citrus fruit, ETH has sprouted what I elsewhere dub the ETI Myth. Because we live in an age where Darwinian evolution plays a big part in our worldview, we conflate evolution with technological progress and then project this imaginatively onto our speculation about extraterrestrial civilizations. We imagine that an off-Earth civilization that has evolved longer than Homo sapiens on Earth would have proportionately more advanced technology. When this more advanced civilization sends scouts and explorers to our planet in flying saucers, it appears that our own future is coming back to us in time.

There is more to the ETI Myth. We live in a cultural epoch in which religious symbols are going extinct and being replaced by icons of science and technology. Materialism is replacing spirituality. It is easy for us to transfer our religious sensibilities from religion to technology. We ask: are these more highly advanced space visitors coming to Earth to save us? To save us from nuclear war or save us from ecological self-destruction? If earthly technology has the partial capacity to save us from the vicissitudes of disease, might a more advanced extraterrestrial technology have the ability to save us from ultimate destruction? In sum, our religious sensibilities might be ready to interpret the UAP Hellfire as a heavenly omen.

Conclusion

UAP soldiers such as Danny Sheehan are fighting an enemy, namely, closed-mouthed US government officials who are allegedly keeping secret evidence of a superior technology which just might be extraterrestrial in origin. How can we open up a mouth that insists on remaining shut?

The UAP Hellfire incident is quite recent. It is stunning, fascinating, and puzzling. What could it mean?

I plan to observe how the UAP Hellfire event gets interpreted in the months ahead. Even though the UAP Hellfire event is by no means unique in the annals of UFO history, it fits snugly within the ETI myth. Might it pick up religious or spiritual interpretations? Let’s see.

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Meet Ted Peters. For Patheos, Ted Peters posts articles and notices in the field of Public Theology. He is a Lutheran pastor and emeritus professor at the Graduate Theological Union. His single volume systematic theology, God—The World’s Future, is now in the 3rd edition. He has also authored God as Trinity plus Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society as well as Sin Boldly: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls. In 2023 he published. The Voice of Public Theology, with ATF Press. This year he has published an edited volume, Promise and Peril of AI and IA: New Technology Meets Religion, Theology, and Ethics (ATF) and along with Arvin Gouw an edited collection, The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics (Bloomsbury 2025). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com and Patheos blog site on Public Theology.

In the field of Ufology, Ted served one stint as Louisiana State Investigator for MUFON. Currently he holds active membership in the Society for UAP Studies and the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. He is author of UFOs: God’s Chariots? Spirituality, Ancient Aliens, and Religious Yearnings in the Age of Extraterrestrials (Career Press New Page Books, 2014).

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