2020 was so weird that the us government comes out and says ufos are real...

[Mister Mets]

Why would the pentagon play along with the media's quest to get views? I think they are some kind of Russian or Chinese spy drones, and the military is leaking this stuff to low-key threaten them. All of this is out in the open to say, "We see what you are doing knock it off!"

The Pentagon doesn't have much to lose, especially if the media's approach is restrained so it doesn't come across as crazy or making members of the military look bad. The possibility of intelligent life somewhere in the Universe is a reason for military spending.

[Jim Kelly]

Of course u.f.o.'s are real, because u.f.o. is an abbreviation for unidentified flying object. Every time I go outside, I see objects flying in the air and I'm unable to identify them--so I am seeing unidentified flying objects all the time.

This is the problem with always using abbreviations--you stop thinking what the abbreviation actually stands for. You forget that K.F.C. is fried food and you forget that a u.f.o. is simply not identified as yet. Instead, as soon as people see u.f.o., they think calling occupants of interplanetary craft.

I prefer Occam's razor. Making the leap in logic that something must be alien involves too many assumptions, when there are other answers that don't require such a big leap.

[Kirby101]

The Pentagon doesn't have much to lose, especially if the media's approach is restrained so it doesn't come across as crazy or making members of the military look bad. The possibility of intelligent life somewhere in the Universe is a reason for military spending.

Why is that. Spending on science, absolutely. But why would the possibility of life out in the Universe mean military spending. Cliche alien invasion movies should not cause us to waste money on a scenario that has close to zero chance of happening. And what giant boondoogle would we throw away money on to guard against nonexistent aliens?
We already spend way more than we need to on the military.