Dr Phil thinks the US government is hoodwinking Americans. (That or his ratings and social media takings are down.)
Anyone in the chain of command is automatically to be seriously doubted because they can easily be enlisted for psyops by the military and intelligence agencies. Research scientists are also problematic for that same reason. When doing my PhD I noticed a lot of recruiting by intelligence agencies across all departments including the humanities.
When enlisted for psyops across military and intelligence programs people become subject to national security laws and, if they're military personnel, can be tried for treason and dereliction of duty.
Civilian pilots and research scientists are the most likely candidates for unsullied witnesses, but there's still no reason to believe this is all anything but a bullshit psyop. Such people can still be unreliable for many reasons. The bottom line is that fuzzy film and witness testimony are not only not enough, they're comical. That the only evidence available is eyewitness alleged testimony and bad video is a joke in and of itself, but also evidence that there's nothing going on.
As I have argued in this article: 'they' are almost certainly not here, and they're not coming.
However, life is a boring, unfulfilling wait for death which is full of misery and suffering for most people, and so frauds like fideist theist religion and UFOlogy are still the opiate(s) of the masses.
The leaps ahead in technology made by humanity during the last 70-100 years are definitely remarkable, but they're still attributable to human ingenuity and the move from an agrarian civilisation to an industrial one where food and resources are more plentiful. Alan Turing and Isaac Newton were just very brilliant, and just as any technology which is sophisticated enough appears to be magic when one doesn't understand it, innovations and creations of very smart people can look very strange and awesome to others who don't have their insights and education.
