Most people are keeping an open mind as they wait for the evidence and testimony.
I am of the firm belief that much of it is USAF experimental tech. My logic is as follows.
1) By law, the only place where aircraft can go supersonic is far off the coast of San Diego. But to get there from Nevada, you must pass by the radar intensive Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix. So there is only one, relatively low altitude “lane” for use by helicopters, drones, and “others”.
I have flown on this lane in helicopters a bunch of times, and have seen military drones several times there, as well as “black helicopters”, back when they used to be assembled in Mesa. It is the only NS route near Phoenix.
2) The “Phoenix Lights” aircraft was coming south on this route when they threw their clutch or something. This left them silently hovering ~100-200 ft above the ground at the end of the day over some “rich people’s houses”. Literally relying on the wind for any movement. Lots of people saw them and video recorded them. They eventually drifted south over the desert and landed there to be surrounded by a LOT of military vehicles.
3) The USAF then went on a full press disinformation campaign. Even a former governor who had seen it was told to STFU. A disinformation campaign is a thing of beauty, if you know what’s going on. The local media did their part as well.
The bottom line is simple. If the USAF wasn’t investing a lot in UFO tech, it wouldn’t be doing its job. And such tech only works when our enemies and potential enemies do not know about it. So the public has no “need to know”. And I can live with that. Can you?
btw, the USAF isn’t the only one investing in very secret, very high tech stuff. It’s their job.