Cops saw a descending bright light. Which could be a battery powered spotlight on a drone. Others saw 8 to 10 foot aliens....which are probably kids in costumes on short stilts.
So putting it together. Send up a drone in your costumes, turn on the light....send it down stand in your costumes until you're noticed. Voila...instant UFO landing.
When I was a kid I made a ufo out of a pie tin and cottage cheese container, threw it up in the air and took a picture with my instamatic camera. I had all my friends and brothers and sisters convinced it was a UFO..until I told them what it was. People WANT to believe...that's evidenced by the reporting and the gullible cop.
Kids on stilts? Bewahahahah.
No, not everyone.
Some out there are scared to death some of the events/sighting might be real.
In SW Montana running around in an alien or Bigfoot costume would almost certainly end up in you getting shot.