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Given all of the current and impending geopolitical tension (Russia v Ukraine, China v Taiwan, N Korea v everyone, etc etc), I wouldn't be surprised if the US has been ramping up testing of their top secret aircraft tech over the last couple of years. >

I mean technically thats actually what Area 51 was. They were just testing R&D for drones and shit out there long before the public even knew what a drone was. I actually had a special forces friend who said he believed in aliens because he was actually stationed out there and heard some DOE guys talking secretly about what i now know from the way they described it was probably the gimbal footage.
But you know what they say, if your tool is a hammer every problem becomes a nail, and if your tool is meth every bird becomes a CIA drone designed to steal your secrets. >

The CIA drones can't steal my secrets when I'm literally giving them away taps forehead >

Unidentified doesn't mean aliens. Just something that wasn't identifiable. >

And most likely drones. >

If the Space Brothers were humanity's friends, they would likely have been up-front about it by now. Alas, since UFO sightings seem correlated with military bases, any lights in the sky are likely we humans. We has met the aliens, and them is us. >

"unidentified" really says more about the viewer than the flying object. >

No, it doesn't. Not in the context of "UFO". 
The term was created by the United States Air Force as a catch-all for intelligently controlled craft. The "Unidentified" portion of it applies to the technology, behavior, & origin. "Object" is understood to be a craft or machine, for lack of a better term. 
It's not for a viewer who can't quite tell if something is a bird or a balloon. >

Technically a balloon could be a ufo. >

Even a bafoon >

Yes and Lockheed Martin could fly a drone over their heads and all 500 soldiers would say "i saw a UFO" because that's what it means. It's just unidentified.   
Also they changed the term to UAP unidentified aerial phenomena, so they're using the UFO term again? Or is this selective language so they can say they never said anything? lol >

Everything is a UFO if you’re bad enough at identifying stuff >

We can safely now say there are no alien spaceships that the world is privy of. If so, trump would have thrown that bone to the dogs long ago. >

I don't know. I know if he knew about them that would have been the case, but then I think about Independence Day's hand-wavy "two words Mr. President: 'plausible deniability'" scene and how many reports of senior leadership in the White House deliberately ignoring some of his orders and I think there could still be a case made for it. >

Camera phones becoming more and more prevalent
But UFO sightings reported going down more and more and more over the past 20 years really tell the truth of it deep down.
I think another key component is this is the militaries soft pushback preparing for the future.
NASA is going to find foreign cells and bacteria at some point. It's going to happen somewhere.
And rather than some enormous philosophical, THERE IS NO GOD!! Moment for christians. The Air Force and others are just making it an expected outcome.