In April of 2016, U.S. Army's Task Force Strike, which was composed of the second brigade

combat team, 101st Airborne Division Air Assault, arrived in Iraq. Their mission was to advise and assist the Iraqi military in an

operation to retake the city of Mosul, which had been under the control of the Islamic State,

who had seized it in 2014, during the violent battle of Mosul. In the months leading up to

the push into eastern Mosul, later that October, the Army's

task force would be assisted by the U.S. Air Force to deliver precision strikes, as well as to

provide intel to our Iraqi allies. Part of those efforts involved the use of a secretive spy

aircraft to perform reconnaissance over the region. Though it has never been

officially confirmed by intelligence officials, the spy plane was likely the Lockheed U2 Dragon Lady.

First developed by the Skunk Works Division in the 1950s with covert funding from the CIA.

The high-altitude plane has been one of the agency's most reliable

spying tools for decades. It is able to fly undetected over remote regions and film down to the

street level. It was on one of these reconnaissance flights that it filmed something that is still

unexplained. It has become known as the Mosul orb. The video of the silver, orb-like object,

flying over the city of Mosul, wouldn't be released to the public by the Pentagon for another

six years when it was unveiled at a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.

We're talking about a classified briefing, likely taking place inside one of the secure rooms here at the Capitol.

It's going to be members of the House Oversight Committee meeting with this group from the Pentagon that investigates reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena.

The Pentagon's all-domain anomaly resolution office, known as Arrow, which investigates

reports of unidentified anomalous phenomenon, issued a statement saying that it demonstrated

UAP characteristics and behavior consistent with other metallic orb observations in the region.

In other words, this wasn't the first time they'd encountered strange floating orbs in a war zone, and it wouldn't surprise Pentagon officials.

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