Draft: UFOs overhyped or seen as ridiculous, so public can't be bothered with serious recent stuff

Here's what I heard in December from the NY Times, Luis Elizondo, and others.  I'm gonna number them just to try to sound organized.  I, Tucker Carlson, and Elizondo think this is "hell-for-impressive."   I guess we're the only three who do.  Also Nick Pope, ex-Brit UFO study director.

    1.  We covered up spending $22 million to study apparent possible threats from things that can outfly US aircraft.  I guess none actually acted threateningly.  Good start.
    2.   Sightings of such things--to me they're nonsaucers--by US military personnel number in the dozens.    Probably hundreds.  The off-San Diego episode in 2004 was described by naval personnel as "a whole fleet of them."  Lots of sightings go unreported because they're bad for your career.  There's a pattern and the public isn't being told the details of what we observe in the pattern. 
    3.  The guy running the study just quit because, he says, he was being blocked from giving good reports to those at the top.   In other words, his experience says we can't trust the Joint Chiefs and the President to be well informed about this.  We The Citizenry are grossly ill-informed and our leaders may be, too.
    4.  He also said religious (read "conservative Christian") objections are part of the opposition to studying this harder and telling the people more.  Since I grew up in a conservative Christian religion that will lie all it needs to, to make its checkered history look good, this struck a nerve in me.
    5.  He, ex-study-director L. Elizondo, said, "We may not be alone."  He admitted he couldn't talk about still-classified info, and the public has only been told about two cases out of maybe half a hundred.  So 94% or 99.4% of the pertinent info is denied us, and he still concedes "We may not be alone."  Sounds to me like he knows damn well we're not.
    6.  He thinks the real potential threat is from hiding what he and others "inside" know from the general public.  People have to receive critical info for a democracy to function.
      He further admitted knowledge of
    7.  Some of the theory of how these things fly.  If they don't really exist, how are we figuring out their science?
    8.  "Metamaterials" put down in layers composed of isotopes in combinations not found on Earth
How do you analyze substances that you don't possess, since they don't exist?  Elizondo wouldn't admit Bigelow was storing some of these substances in Vegas.  How do you learn their isotopic combinations if you don't have them stored anywhere?  You find something lying on the desert in some western state and do your test, but leave the stuff lying there?
    9.  At least one retired F-18 pilot came away utterly convinced the things he chased came from somewhere besides Earth.
    10.  Last and maybe least, Elizondo says someone from the Pentagon called him and said something like "maybe your life should be threatened because you're flapping your big mouth."
     This is suggestive evidence, not strong evidence, not conclusive.  But the grand importance of the possible topic it suggests--intelligent life elsewhere besides Earth--says to me we should be spending $22 billion on this, not $22 million.
     There are something like 35 other types of suggestive evidence of ET visiting Earth, from Travis Walton to impossible surgery done in cattle mutilations to Colonel Jesse Marcel, Jr to Montana sheriffs' reports to Phillip Corso to the sightings at Phoenix and Stephenville and Rendelshem Forest an d Minot nuclear base.