What this article illustrates is that the New York Times is fake news.
By casting doubt on the original government release?
Or by publishing the original government release at all?
What does the derisive tone of so many of the poster's comments represent?
Does the tone arise more from
1. True intellectual unbelief?
2. Anxiety/fear of facing the likely true facts and their implications?
3. Fear of social ridicule if they are seen to allow that such might be real?
4. A lack of ability/willingness to conceive of how they could integrate it all into their world view, cosmology?
5. A distaste for, hostility to anything remotely like sci fi?
6. A generally contrarian personality?
7. An aversion to treating super serious stuff seriously?
8. What?