Westerners are just bad at identifying flying objects (see recent news) so a higher proportion of flying objects go unidentified.
This is absolutely true. Even beyond the balloon insanity, people routinely take for granted the skill it takes to identify things that are high in the atmosphere, or far out on the horizon. Those who wish to believe in aliens are likley to say a military pilot must be too technically skilled of a person to be fallible, but this is an appeal to the authority of, and the paternalism of, grandady Military.
Meanwhile some experts can actually recreate the anomolies that the military are apparently baffled by.
This is absolutely true. Even beyond the balloon insanity, people routinely take for granted the skill it takes to identify things that are high in the atmosphere, or far out on the horizon. Those who wish to believe in aliens are likley to say a military pilot must be too technically skilled of a person to be fallible, but this is an appeal to the authority of, and the paternalism of, grandady Military.
Meanwhile some experts can actually recreate the anomolies that the military are apparently baffled by.