There are a lot of things that don't add up and I can create a pretty convincing narrative that this is some sort of counter intelligence operation...I just can't figure out WHY it is a counter-intelligence operation.
I could create a WoT post going through all of the possibilities that I have come up with, but none of them answer the why question.
Take Skinwalker Ranch for example. The owners previous to Bigelow had lived their since 1933 and reported no paranormal activity. After selling it, the brother of the deceased owner got a call from Bigelow saying "Why didn't you tell me about the UFOs". The brother had no idea what he was talking about.
https://www.theufochronicles.com/2020/04/skinwalker-ranch-original-owner-family-member-speaks.html
Ok...so they were creating a cover story for Skinwalker. I've heard rumours that they were testing secret weapons. If you are testing secret weapons at a remote ranch, with no one around, why would you create a cover story that constantly attracts attention to a place no one would even knew existed if you just stayed quiet. Why not test it at one of the many top secret locations around the country?
The Nimitz incident...was it a UFO or a top secret drone on a final test run before being deployed to Iran...because the Iranians started reporting a tic-tac like CIA drone in November 2004 just before the Nimitz.
If that is the case, why didn't they make Fravor sign an NDA...because he has been talking about it both formally and informally since. Was the Fighter Sweep article in 2015 the impetus to start a disinformation campaign in the mainstream news that only brought more attention to the incident?
https://fightersweep.com/1460/x-files-edition/
I just don't know.
At the end of the day, Bigelow and his crew have had a long time interest in the paranormal, the AAWSAP funding looks like pork barrel politics rather than a clandestine program and the efforts started in 2017 have resulted in the DoD acknowledging the videos are authentic and characterized as unidentified.
That is the first time they have acknowledged that since before Blue Book. We now have two former presidents and two DNI directors talking about this as well as congressional action.
As I said, I just don't know right now what this is about. I have waited 40 years to some kind of breakthrough on this topic, I can wait another decade if necessary to see how this all shakes out.