Everyone hears of such stories of seeing something but then told to shut-up.
Decades of service here, we ALL hear those stories but we never put any stock in them and never met anyone that was told to shut up. . .and those that we did meet that claim that, they did so with a little glint of humor in their eye. . .just to see who’s gonna buy their spiel.
You ever try to keep a group of young enlistee’s quiet?
Heck, their rumor-mill/gossip factory is far more prolific than any knitting club.
I saw ‘something’ one time, while flying, and instead of the usual “I didn’t see anything, did you?,” “’Nope, I didn’t see anything either” stuff you see in hollywood, we landed and told EVERYONE we could find about what we saw. We were never told to shut-up or keep quiet.
“Reading the Enemy’s Mind” by Paul H Smith, that is where my sighting is written about.
Lol. Well THAT makes sense.
Yes, I can see that would be one way to create drama and curiousity.