The NYT has written over and over that UFOs are swamp gas and weather balloons. Once a weather balloon is launched, it never comes down. Weather balloons suddenly acquire the capability to travel at 20,000 mph, make impossible 90 degree turns and hang around nuclear missile sites, asking for chocolate chip cookies.
Why won’t people believe that?
Don’t forget “temperature inversion”!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C.,_UFO_incident
Or “flares”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights
;-)