The comment I replied to was stating that if alien vehicles visited Earth then the military would be aware of it, with the implicit assumption that if the milit

The comment I replied to was stating that if alien vehicles visited Earth then the military would be aware of it, with the implicit assumption that if the military was aware of UAPs then the it would inform the public. My counterargument is that if the military detected UAPs then they would have both a strong incentive not to inform the public and the means to keep it secret. Thus the (public) absence of (military) evidence is not evidence of absence. Happy to address any other misunderstandings.