The problem with UFOs is that the more you look the less there is to see which to a great extent is well reflected in the bellow interesting documentary which starts with the Foo Fighters.
In fact, they could have started with the balloon craze of the late 19th century when people were seeing strange objects hovering in the sky, landing and taking off. In the end, most of these sightings were confirmed a hoaxes, hallucinations and newspapers filling up back pages with sensationalism.
Not so with the Foos Fighters. Close to the end of the 2WW, US bombers over Germany were often accompanied with spherical lights which were clearly not St Elmo fires (Electric Discharges at the tip of the wings) showing strange properties of flying in formation, then escaping at high speed. This was mysterious and well reported. But it was the war so the subject was not discussed as mostly everybody thought these were German secret weapons.
The UFO boom really started over the Rockies in 1947, when an experienced pilot described what was later dubbed as "Flying Saucers", and suddenly flying saucers were everywhere.
Roswell came almost at the same time, but in 1947 it didn't make much waves. Local ranchers did find a few debris, wood, plastic and some metal parts which were quickly dismissed by the police as military junk. And junk it was until 20 years later, people started remembering bodies and strange materials and suddenly the Roswell legend jumped out of the grave for its second life.
To call Roswell the middle of nowhere is an understatement. The city is a long way from Taos, the Rio Grande and the Red rocks canyons of Northern New Mexico. To reach it, you will probably cross the city of Los Alamos where the first nuclear bombs were made and Alamogordo where they were tested. Then nothing. Endless semi-desert rolling hills. If you're the US army and need somewhere to train, the place looks ideal. If you come from across the galaxy, I am not so sure.
And that is often a recurring pattern. Nothing much to start with, then people start remembering and as they remember the details gets sharper and cleaner. This should be enough to dismiss most UFO cases but it is not. Some stubbornly resist all explanations and remain mysterious. Sufficiently at least for most governments to investigate the phenomenon.
Those worries alone should confirm that there is indeed a core of hard cases hiding behind hallucinations and mass psychosis. So when the US government suddenly announced last year that they would become more transparent on the subject, expectations were high.
If you were expecting bodies in Area 51, then obviously what came out of the exercise was a giant nothing-burger, But if you were not, which was my case, then what transpired was in fact extremely interesting and mysterious. The US government has been amassing loads of information on the subject so obviously was very interested. But in the end, they seem to know little more than we do. Except that they do have videos and these cannot so easily be dismissed as hoaxes.
On these videos we clearly see round metallic balls flying at low altitude often captured automatically by drones as well as infrared screen shots of extremely fast objects. These documents for me, prove that there is in fact something worth investigating in the phenomenon. This is not Hollywood, "Earth Standing Still"-like movies but interesting enough to study more thoroughly.
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