In WWII bomber pilots returning from long missions at night sometimes reported seeing “gremlins” outside their cockpits. Doesn’t mean they were real.
I left living in Los Angeles because of all the gremlins running around. They were definitely aliens.
Okay, but this was literally thousands of people, on the ground, from every angle imaginable... not some fatigued kid after a long and uncomfortable battle with the elements in a rattling tin can.