What are the motivational factors resulting in your groping so compulsively for ANY other possible explanation than that included in a professional report by professional military personnel . . . actually now, numbering in the many thousands?
It’s not the military personnel...it’s those laymen putting their own colored perceptions on what they saw...Not to mention we have the example of the “foo fighters” from WWII.
Did he make visual contact with the contact? Or did he only have it on radar? Weather conditions? His speed? Was there an unscheduled test? Was something re-entering from space?
Not at all saying he was wrong...but the automatic assumption it was little green men is just a bit too damn pat for me.