The key question here is not if these stories are true, or what the objects may be. The question is... Why does the government want to bring UFOs to the fore at this time?
Listen to "The Daily", the NYTime podcast. They just had an episode titled "A Secret U.F.O. Program".
The reporter describes how she first came about the story. Apparently the guy running the program in the Pentagon felt that they had reached a critical mass of evidence and witnesses but the department wasn't being taking seriously and couldn't be talked about.
I was wondering that too -- also in the news recently, the "interstellar object" that for some reason has attracted enough attention to scan it for "alien life", whatever that means.
The reporter describes how she first came about the story. Apparently the guy running the program in the Pentagon felt that they had reached a critical mass of evidence and witnesses but the department wasn't being taking seriously and couldn't be talked about.