You can't have multiple forms of advanced military targeting and recording and corroboration and high degrees of trust in the chain of possession and the observers themselves etc, any place other than where all that stuff is operating and operating in that heightened state like a training exercise or any other actual operation.

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.