"FLIR video and by Navy pilots visual"
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FLIR is supposed to detect heat, it's not a photograph. There's just is no photographic evidence for any of the claims. With such a total lack, if the reports were actual, we could just as easily be talking about electronic interference from someone nuking a burrito or a game another pilot is playing on some I-toy or another leaking signals.
If only the DOD could figure out how to mount a camera on an aircraft, it would answer the question pretty dang quick. But apparently that area of extremely rare expertise - putting a camera on a plane - got lost sometime after the Cuban Missile Crisis era.
Modern FLIR has video. Photographs are just another part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Evidently, video is not good enough, but a still photo is?
You are being absurd with your demands. Next you accuse the military of not understanding the very gear that pilots’ lives depend on: “electronic interference from someone nuking a burrito or a game another pilot is playing on some I-toy or another leaking signals.” That is just a beyond bazar statement. Those guys do not play video games while flying - are you just off your meds or what?
Cameras on modern fighter jets F-16s, F15s are just dead weight, contributing nothing to the mission, survivability or fighting.