[BigCryo]

But not too long ago there was a flurry of media stories sensationalizing these videos and basically concluding that they were UFOs, and the military was going along with the story.. no doubt in order to scare the populace and increase the military budget

[h3rsko]

If these are being released in order to raise military funding, why were they not released when they were filmed a decade ago? The military is always looking to increase funding.

[roywiggins]

If anything the military has been very quiet about things in the sky, because if they went public they'd have to admit that probably adversary nations have been getting the drop on them.

> The gross inaction and the stigma surrounding unexplained aerial phenomena as a whole has led to what appears to be the paralyzation of the systems designed to protect us and our most critical military technologies, pointing to a massive failure in U.S. military intelligence. This is a blind spot we ourselves literally created out of cultural taboos and a military-industrial complex that is ill-suited to foresee and counter a lower-end threat that is very hard to defend against.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...

[handedness]

From missiles to subs to jets, the US military has never been shy about pointing at an adversary's strengths (accurate or not) to justify increased budgets.