I don't mean any disrespect, but it's really a bit of an ironic mind fukk that the dudes in this thread making the case FOR aliens, are the rational ones in the discussion.
One of the main problems with conspiracy theorists is that they really don't grasp what it would take to coordinate the efforts they believe in.
Is it honestly plausible that the Department of Defense coordinated with 4 different US Senators (who are part of the legislative branch of government, not the executive branch), the New York Times, and a privately owned company (To The Stars Academy), all in some elaborate scheme to defraud the public into believing that aliens may have visited Earth, but as it turns out, the public didn't even give a fukk about their grand scheme in the first place?
All just to secure a whopping $22 million dollars of the defense budget?
Just ONE of the planes that followed the UFOs cost more than it did to fund the entire program.
What incentive would the government have to lie about something like this? This isn't Iraq and neither dikk Cheney or Halliburton had anything to do with AATIP. We're talking about mere pennies that was spent on this program.
And if this were a coverup of secret US technology, it kinda defeats the purpose if you're going to release video detail of it to the public, doesn't it?
If the Air Force has tech that achieves speeds in a matter of seconds that defy the laws of physics, without propulsion, and doesn't even create a sonic boom, while also being able to come to a complete stop instantenously, why would they ever reveal that information?