“If military planes encounter these things wouldn’t commercial and/or private aircraft encounter them also?”
I’m slowly working on my license. I and many commercial pilots have seen “things”. They are usually far too fast and small to capture with any camera.
Once I roughly timed one and did a rough calculation of how fast it cleared the horizon. The object was moving several times faster than any known aircraft or missile. The ones I’ve seen zoomed very straight and very fast. Other pilots have seen objects that did 90-180 degree turns with no visible radius or change in velocity.
What does that mean?
I've got my "license." (SEL, IFR) I'm not active anymore. But the only time I saw something coming toward me at "warp speed" it was an F-14 that had just taken off from the old Grumman facility near Calverton, LI.
ML/NJ