[likeabbas]

Like the other commenter said, there’s a huge stigma amongst military officials to not report these events because the stigma is a career ended. That’s why the government added legislation mandating the DoD create a channel for these events to be reported.

Diving a little deeper, if the military suspected these aircraft were foreign adversary then this would be big news. But they don’t. They believe it’s something else entirely, which is why it’s not been public headlines until recently.

[revscat]

Same in astronomy and cosmology. Your career will be over if you do not hold a very specific view, or at least hold it publicly.

[likeabbas]

Exactly. We need this stigma to stop. There should be no reason to not study interesting data, and the data is very interesting.