Imagining that hard working folks in the DoD, Pentagon or anywhere else, are losing sleep over some unverified UFO report that is still under investigation and may be nothing more than a new radar system bug, or likewise may be friendly operations of experimental systems by other agencies besides DoD, is, well, just imagination. The folks at DoD have their hands full assessing the many real threats in this world, and determining how to address those threats in a balanced way given limited resources.
Discounting my own experience as 'virtue signaling' is a liberal silencing tactic.