A stunning explosion was captured after a missile appeared to destroy an unidentified flying object, sparking many wild theories about what was really hit.
Residents in the Shandong Province of China recorded a bright, slow-moving object flying close to the ground moments before it appeared to disintegrate in a brilliant flash and fall to Earth.
Videos shared on Chinese social media platforms showed a red fireball seemingly being launched like a surface-to-air missile towards the object, followed by two loud explosions.
The incident occurred on Friday, September 12, near the cities of Weifang and Rizhao, around 9pm local time in China (9am ET in the US).
News of the mysterious explosion spread quickly online, reaching social media platforms in the US, where people began to speculate that the Chinese military had either shot down a drone, a meteor, or a UFO.
No official statements from the Chinese government or military have confirmed what happened.
However, the incident happened at the same time as scheduled military exercises in the nearby Bohai Sea, where China’s military announced they were practicing with live weapons.
The potential missile strike came just days after a US congressional hearing revealed shocking footage of a military drone’s Hellfire missile appearing to bounce off a UFO.
Local residents in China captured a giant mid-air explosion on September 12, where a red fireball collided with an unidentified flying object
The explosion appeared to destroy the object, which fell from the sky in a cloud of debris
Some of those commenting on social media believed the object was a target, possibly a drone or fake missile, used in the Bohai Sea exercises, and the Chinese shot it down during a test of their defense systems.
In one angle of the explosion, viewers can see the supposed missile rise from a distant position on the other side of the horizon, quickly speed across the sky, and then angle down to strike the unknown object.
While some have suggested that the target was a natural object, like a meteor, there didn’t appear to be a fiery tail extending from the object that the suspected missile hit.
When small pieces of space rocks enter Earth’s atmosphere, they travel at extremely high speeds, causing friction as they move through the air and creating a glowing tail of electrically charged air around the meteorite.
Moreover, meteors don’t typically fly parallel to the ground, like the object in the video appeared to do.
If it were a meteor, which typically travels between 25,000 and 160,000 mph, China’s ability to intercept such a fast-moving object would represent a major leap forward in military defense technology.
However, many people online fear that the Chinese military targeted and destroyed an extraterrestrial craft last week.
‘Another UFO UAP has been shot down… This is definitely part of their reverse engineering program,’ one person claimed on X.
Videos appeared to show a missile launched from the ground which quickly intercepted the object and exploded
Chinese officials have not commented on the incident or what may have been flying over the Shandong Province
The new video appeared to show the object flying over Shandong Province being completely destroyed and breaking into several pieces when the reddish fireball struck it on Friday.
Meanwhile, a similar incident on October 30, 2024, which has just been made public, produced a very different outcome.
During the third congressional hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri unveiled never-before-seen footage of a UFO being struck by a US military drone’s missile off the coast of Yemen.
Unlike the object in the Chinese video, the glowing orb-shaped craft continued to fly after being struck by the laser-guided bomb.
Military whistleblower Jeffrey Nuccetelli, a former Air Force police officer for 16 years, called the new video ‘exceptional evidence’ of the existence of UFOs.
While it may never be confirmed by China if the object struck was a genuine UFO, initial reports of the incident have leaned towards calling the red fireball a military weapons test.
In 2025, both the US and Chinese armed forces have ramped up military exercises in the Pacific, including multiple reports of China conducting live-fire drills in the East China Sea, just 200 miles from the mysterious explosion.
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