edit: what's in the videos? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If it was a civilian drone they would go after it and people controlling it, a foreign spy plane would cause diplomatic turmoil.
Its either their misinformation campaign, testing of their next gen tech, or aliens. Listed by probability with first being in high 90s.
UFOs == aliens was a connection that came about later.
I definitely agree we didn't simply "invent" this. If these are ours or we know how they work, we had to have help building them. Otherwise it's just too weird to consider an entirely parallel set of physical theories that tens of thousands of people must have learned and put into practice and it's not credibly in the open. There has to be something else stopping that from coming out, which to me implies secret cooperation with a civilization way beyond our own.
and they almost all happen over declared testing areas where the air force has trialed new stuff on navy crews without telling them in the past...
[0] https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Offic...
Sounds like the detected craft were attempting to be stealthy and were caught out by military use of cutting edge technology as the "rules changed."
That and we only hear about the well documented cases, where advanced sensors meet recording technology from multiple sources - military systems in other words.
It would also be easier to find strange unauthorized stuff in the less populated and more heavily scrutinized areas - no fly zones monitored regularly by military staff for instance. Over land there is a lot of legitimate traffic to "hide" in.
When was the last time the Navy was flying a bunch of fighter jets with all their hottest weapons and targetting tech active over your house?
We do have lot's of what IS "any place other", which is randos cell phone an dash cam footage. We quite rightly dismiss most of it, but it exists,ans it's all that can possibly exist, and so there is no discrepency to find "interesting".
I also don't find it remarkable at all that Russia and China aren't publicizing their own "nutcase" stories any more than we ever did, especially considering their pilots are pprobably even less likely to report anything even slightly odd that will end their careers.
It's not interesting at all.
Not only that they happen in the US, they frequently happen to US military, the very kinds of sensors arrays you would want to spoof.
This is kind of backed up by the fact that the countries that are releasing the most UFO stuff are the ones experiencing the largest spike in instability.
It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land.
Other UFO HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
My bet has to be on it being an elaborate disinformation campaign, to throw off our nationstate adversaries and keep the public in fear and/or distracted. It requires one to be super cynical, but our government has done worse to US citizens in terms of disinformation [0] (but not since the 70s that i know of).
That explanation accounts for why these sightings only appear to happen in the US, and is (to me) far more believable than an encounter with otherworldly technology.
At least with respect to the 2004 encounter, I think the least likely explanation is that the object belonged to another superpower - b/c it feels like something totally out of reach in multiple domains for 2004 tech.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#:~:text=COINTELPRO%....