If you are a military pilot and report a UFO, you get moved to a desk job.
If you are part of a group that has a sighting, you are forced to sign an NDA and told to shut up.
Early on there was a small, high level group of government officials in charge of UFO’s. One of the members was an admiral who wanted to go public with what they knew. He was supposedly snuffed out for it.
I would call that hard.