[tyleo]

I doubt that. The interesting part is that there _is_ a goal even if we don't know what it is:

* US Government is telling the truth - goal may be to figure out what these are.

* US Government is lying - goal may be to mislead an adversary.

Those are just two examples. I find UFOs interesting because its hard to understand the government's intention here and fun to speculate.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

Assuming that "US Government" has a single coherent goal is an event worse error than assuming the same of e.g. Microsoft (1)

Quite possibly: one faction in one branch of "US Government" is manoeuvring for power / money / status from another branch. Uncovering "truth" might be quite irrelevant to this goal; there's a lot of post-truth stuff happening there at present.

https://ritholtz.com/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-amazon...