There is a lot of history here—the classic on the subject is:
https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-National-Security-State-Chronology/dp/1571743170
Disinformation is the game—the American public is the target.
We pay people to lie to us—is this a great country or what? ;-)
(I love the country, actually. Most people are great. It is the large institutions that creep me out.)
Where’s Art Bell? God I love a mystery. If they’d just shoot the SOB down and recover it we’d find out it’s an eighth graders class project.