Delving deeper into the UFO topic, there was an article in Scientific American and a podcast interview with Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of AARO, the government organization investigating UFOs. He recently retired after publishing findings expected to be disclosed to Congress soon. Despite rarely giving interviews, he recently stated that there's no evidence of UFOs or a government cover-up.
Dr. Kirkpatrick tends to dismiss many sightings as top-secret advanced drones from the US, China, or private companies. AARO often attributes numerous reports to likely being weather balloons, with only a small percentage, like the Tic Tac video (The Black Aces/Commander David Fravor), considered truly anomalous. He claims that 95-98% of items received by AARO are easily explainable.
He believes that all of the core story that has been unraveling is coming from a small group of people. This group believes that the government is trying to cover up as many as 12 ufo crash retrievals, the government at one point turned over to private companies and that at some point the private companies tried to sell back to the government and that the government/contractors are hiding the funding of those projects from congress..
I do find it strange how essentially the same group of people's names always come up on interviews/reports with subject matter experts except for David Grusch and a few others...From what i've read/watched a lot of them had worked directly or through a few degrees of separation together with Robert Bigelow/Bigelow Aerospace, Harry Reid, Christopher Mellon, Jacques Vallée, AATIP (and then more recently with Tom Delong's To The Stars Academy.
If you listen to some of the extended interviews with Robert Bigelow, and Tom Delong they come off much more eccentric and with beliefs/stories that are just to strange compared to folks that I tend to be interested in hearing there stories/testimony from (David Grusch/Lue Elizondo, Commander David Fravor). Bigelow specifically was an owner of Skinwalker Ranch, established a grant for researchers to find methods to communicate with the dead, and CIA Remote Viewing programs. Tom Delong with his story about how a shadow figure in the government reached out to him to help find a way to share the topic with the general public because the government doesnt have someone to do it...or some shit like that.
Bigelow based out of NV appears to have been close with Senator Harry Reid, who David Grusch brought up in some of his interviews as a fact witness. So if you believe Dr. Kirkpatrick that a small group of people are controlling the narrative it would seem likely that Harry Reid/Bigelow/Christopher Mellon are amongst them.
Some of the people that may be connected to Bigelow came out saying Kirkpatrick is a fraud and is lying...Grusch even at one point indicated during a couple interviews that Dr. Kirkpatrick refused to meet with him to discuss his findings.
Anyway, the likely next shoe to drop here is for AARO report to be released to congress. Based off the interviews with Kirkpatrick, it sounds like essentially its going to say that there's no cover up, no aliens, nothing strange except for chinese drones and balloons. Problem with that is by instrument measuring, radar, and first hand witnesses that seem very trustworthy, some of these objects are defying the laws of physics, going beyond 30,000mph, stopping on a dime and doing right hand turns.