[Quix]

You could be right and you could be wrong.

They tried saying the same type of thing about the Phoenix lights about 10 years ago.

Wouldn't wash. Too many thousands of people saw the huge triangle craft blotting out the stars etc. and more at close enough range, the flare story was laughable.

Though folks not there still believed it.

[snarks_when_bored]

But the objectively verifiable fact that the lights were over the Fort Chaffee bombing range makes a big difference, Quix. That fact should've been noted in the original story.

The simpler explanation is always preferable when it fits the facts...