Until it's not.
And then someone says something, and they respond with: "If there was such a conspiracy, the government couldn't keep it under wraps, someone would say something"
One crank making headlines every few years with nothing that actually backs up their claims doesn’t cut it. By that metric you might as well believe the hundreds of “leakers” claiming the government is made of lizard people.
There is evidence however, things like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bt6_Potk5Q which are becoming more and more common as time goes on. There does seem to be an increasing willingness to disregard evidence all the while demanding more evidence. Recently the pentagon stated they had hundreds of documents/photographs/videos and what has been released publicly does make this appear legitimate.
Is it an alien spaceship? Probably not. Is it an object flying across a warzone that could potentially be a threat of some kind? Quite possibly.
> One crank making headlines every few years
The interesting part of this news is that this person is not "one crank", he's an actual expert in the field employed by organisations to research this exact phenomena. Recently we have had several such experts come along and make these claims. To dismiss that off-hand doesn't seem particularly reasonable these days.
> The interesting part of this news is that this person is not "one crank", he's an actual expert in the field employed by organisations to research this exact phenomena.
And yet here we are again with this one person’s word and nothing in the way of actual evidence.
At this point the earth is blanketed in radar and high definition cameras. Wake me up when there is evidence past a 240p out of focus video or something odd on an infrared sensor 100km away.
I want to believe. I read every book I could find about UFOs when I was a kid. But here we are 30 years later playing out the same tired storylines over and over again.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12165669/Military-w...
There are better sources of this than Daily Mail but I am short on time. Just google his name.
Perhaps the aliens are really diligent about avoiding leaving any artefacts behind in the sort of state where some mid ranking official would happily sell the evidence for the price of a new Mercedes or the military would turn up three weeks after international journalists, or the sort of state whose closely-guarded treasure chest full of alien artefacts would have been burst wide open when the government was overthrown.
But for some reason not only have shadowy government agencies been successful at preventing alien artefacts from circulating in India, France, Zimbabwe, the former USSR and multiple regimes whose demise was much more violent than the breakup of the USSR, those states and their descendant states have actually kept a better lid on their programmes!
[1]though I'm not sure your other cited sightings also involving English speakers immersed in Western culture exactly undermines the implication that its a cultural phenomenon driven by US media. But perhaps aliens can't communicate telepathically in Shona or Ndbele...
The veracity of the above are all suspect, but the fundamental claim that this is something only Americans think about or only happens here, just doesn't reflect reality.
That’s GP’s entire point. If this sort of thing were happening to the scale being claimed—worldwide, instead of magically being confined to the US—we’d be swimming in verifiable evidence of alien artifacts being found across the world.
Instead it’s the same grainy, out-of-focus footage, data from sensors out at past their maximum useful range, and substance-free “leaks” with nothing hard to back them up.
We’re on like season eight or nine of this show and it’s the same plot every time around.