How the Pentagon is clearly and routinely outright lying about UFOs

An excellent expose on how in case by case detail the Pentagon in the last few years has been actually lying that UFOs always have natural explanations, at https://thehill.com/opinion/national-sec...bout-ufos/ :

"...Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) described how his office received a “protected disclosure” from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, regarding a January 2023 UFO incident over the Gulf of Mexico. After being stonewalled by the Air Force, he delivered a tense, on-base reminder to the military about “how authorities flow in the United States of America.” The Air Force relented, permitting Gaetz to review sensor data gathered during the encounter."

This data indicated that this incident occured on a training range quite free from "clutter", that there were four objects keeping in a vertical formation and at times nearly stationary despite there being 80 nmh winds at that altitude, and exhibited maneuvers impossible for man-made aircraft much less balloons. On top of this, both the fighter radar stopped working and the IR system malfunctioned when the jet came within 4000 feet of the objects.

Consider the so called explanation the Pentagon came up with for this incident:

"In a case resolution report published last week, the Pentagon’s UFO analysis office concluded with “moderate” confidence that the object observed by the pilot was a balloon, likely “a large commercial lighting balloon.”
This so-called explanation insults the intelligence of any reader who takes a few moments to review the details of the incident. It did not convince the world’s most prominent UFO skeptic. The pilot’s sketch of the object, described as akin to an “Apollo spacecraft,” bears no plausible resemblance to the design of any known industrial lighting balloon.
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Perhaps most glaringly, the Pentagon UFO office does not address how multiple balloons, separated vertically by thousand-foot increments, could plausibly maintain a “very clear,” “equidistant” diamond formation at high altitudes in strong winds aloft."
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-sec...bout-ufos/

More recently, the Pentagon grudgingly released a Congressionally-mandated review of the history of government involvement with UFOs. The report is full of errors, omissions and historical distortions. Christopher Mellon, the Department of Defense’s former top civilian intelligence official, severely criticized the UFO office in a scathing, 16,000-word take down analysis of the report.

Most prominent in the outright lying about the historical record, was the complete and deliberate mischaracterization of the conclusions of the well-known Battelle Memorial Institute UFO study done in the early 1950s. The recent Congressionally-mandated Pentagon review claimed that this study concluded that "all cases that had enough data were resolved and explainable", whereas the actual study report characterized 33% as “unknown” with excellent quality meaning having sufficient quality data for analysis.