I assume it was just a joke since the one thing the authorities have been willing to say is that they are definitely not foreign drones.

I don't expect you to believe in aliens. I don't tend to believe in much of anything. But when you have multiple whistleblowers giving testimony to congress that UAPs are operated by non-human intelligence, I think keeping aliens as "just speculative science fiction" is factually incorrect.

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4712445-key-senato...

Human intelligence should be enough to understand what parallax is and how gimbals and IR sensors work.

All those published videos were no less than a psyop to demonstrate weapons system's capabilities - with the implicit brag that there's even more powerful stuff they're not showing.

you're intentionally leaving out the eye witness testimony that accompanied those videos.

and promoting conspiracy theories. which is fine, I'm just telling you what US military officers testified to congress about under oath.

Military officers are not immune to believing crazy shit. The eye witness testimony amounts to “I don’t understand what I saw”, not “aliens”.