Actually, if you follow the various reporting from other articles posted about this, AND the response from a few posters on all the threads, there are several ‘suggestions’ that we ‘have to consider’ the off world explanation for this. After all, if its not us, and its not our enemies, who else could it be?
My ‘fixation’ as you put it, is not on aliens. It’s on the ridiculous notion that we must consider alien encounters as a plausible explanation.
It is us. We’re coming from a point in the future
Actually, that is a completely rational question.
I think the pilots who have encounter these phenomena have stated that that question pretty much sums up their opinions thus far.
No one is suggesting aliens per se, but they are honestly curious as to what it is...and therein lies the newsworthiness of this matter.
If these "craft" are ours, why interfere with our training missions in restricted training zones in a way that might cost the lives of pilots and equipment?
If they are our enemies', they are in our restricted training zones and air space important to our national security. That's a BIG problem.
If they are something else entirely, well, that's an unknown, unknown and, as such, a different matter/risk altogether.
The REAL mystery lies somewhere in the middle with the evidence, such as it is.
Experience tells us that there is most likely a plausible explanation for this phenomena. But experience isn't always correct.
The important thing here is that national security is involved.
Personally, I don't think we have enough evidence to draw any conclusions yet. And I imagine that this is what is keeping folks in the Pentagon awake at night.