That astronomers are suppressing information about UFOs (alien spaceships, whatever) because of fears of ticking off the government. People who know what they're looking at just don't make the kinds of misidentifications that the types who usually make UFO reports do, as Ross acutely observed.
As for your relative, I don't completely understand what you're saying he's claiming, but my BS detector is hitting some high marks.
I don't really give a rip about your BS meter. It evidently needs an overhaul or recalibrating.
Check out Stanton Friedman. Open your eyes or mind a bit more.
But even all that is not likely to be that necessary. Within a relatively few number of years, the trends seem to indicate that the issue will be forced as part of the globalist plan to coerce the world's citizens into a world government.
At some point, the UFO realities as well as the deceptions will come crashing down around all of us with reality changing consequences.
As Wherner von Braun asserted to Dr Carol Rosin in 1974--first would be a war against terror and terrorists, then a war with Iraq. Then a war with ET.
Looks like the latter is up next.
But, hey, enjoy the denial as long as possible. It's got to be more comforting than the truth.
IOW,
It's not really my fault that you seem to have a faulty BS meter instead of a relative who worked routinely around our fleet of UFO type craft.
I don't have that problem.
I have the problem of having to believe things I'd rather not have to believe.