Correct answer.
We are getting gaslit and played.
You have naive people who don't know what Venus looks like at dusk.
You have your professional hoaxers who make money off an "unexplained light in the sky" and other flimsy narratives. This is no job title Ufologist.
You have pranksters who go back to people throwing pie tins into the air or dangling hubcaps on strings and taking photos.
Lastly you have gullible people who are so desperate to "believe" they fall for any con.
That's the only disclose there is about alleged ufo sightings.
We might be getting gaslit in some ways, but the UFO phenomenon is too big, too old, and too global to be explained by a single deception. People have reported consistent experiences—abductions, craft, missing time—long before modern psyops existed.
If it were all lies, it would’ve unraveled by now. More likely, we’re dealing with a real phenomenon that’s also being manipulated by multiple players, possibly for different agendas.