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These may not even be "flying" objects. My understanding is the US military has the capability to generate radar "ghosts" ie objects show up on your radar that

These may not even be "flying" objects. My understanding is the US military has the capability to generate radar "ghosts" ie objects show up on your radar that do not exist. This, as you can imagine, would be advantageous in confusing enemy defenses ("look, the Americans, they're coming from the east", when in fact, they are flying in from another direction. I am really skeptical that these are extra-terrestial in nature or that the US government does not know exactly what they are. Think of the national security implications if there were beings with technological capabilities far beyond ours hanging around our military installations. The government would freak out, and rightly so. The absence of this reaction is the most convincing evidence to me that the origin of these sightings is not a mystery.

ksaj 6y ago
They officially use the term 'aerial phenomena' instead of 'objects' for that very reason. I do see in some of the articles that the people in interviews sometimes use the older term, but officially they avoid calling them objects when they could be "reflections" etc. For example, the rotating one that is making its rounds in the official release definitely moves in such a way that it is probably something firmly attached to something else and twisting kinda like a bolt or screw or even a lever does, and somehow ending up on the radar. That rotation it does is definitely not of the aerodynamic kind.