[stestagg]

My working theory on that is the military are concerned about foreign surveillance UAVs.

And by reigniting the UFO narrative, they are more likely to receive reports and data from the public who may be looking for Aliens.

Interestingly, if this were true, it might imply that there is some pretty funky military tech out there, not owned by the US, that might have some interesting capabilities.

[SketchySeaBeast]

I'm sure UAV's, especially at night, would very much look like a UFO - you can't discern scale, and they'll move in all sorts of ways you wouldn't expect. If they are far enough away to mask the noise you'd just see a light doing extraordinary things, and without scale the speed and distances could potentially look vast.

[JulianMorrison]

Things drones can do that seem UFO like: turn sharp corners suddenly and stop on a dime, move in concert as if they were points of light attached to a solid object, disappear or hide by turning their LEDs off, appear by turning them on.

Things drones can't do: go fast enough to cross the sky in a blink, stop on a dime or turn sharp corners at jet speeds, travel at jet speeds at all - without an obvious and loud model jet engine, create slabs of light or opaque surfaces, block the stars behind them like a solid object, be eerily silent.

[trevyn]

>Things drones can't do: go fast enough to cross the sky in a blink, stop on a dime or turn sharp corners at jet speeds, travel at jet speeds at all - without an obvious and loud model jet engine, create slabs of light or opaque surfaces, block the stars behind them like a solid object

Eh, if you have an LED screen in the sky, you can create the appearance of a lot of things.

[SketchySeaBeast]

True to some of those (I think that some of the aerodynamic feats can be perspective and size) but I'm not saying "all UFO's are drones" - that'd be ridiculous, just as I'm sure you're not saying that all the claims are real, and the more extraordinary, the more reason to doubt the claim.