I'm mainly referring to the pentagon's recent bizarre claims about UFO footage e.g. from navy sensors. But yeah, I can totally buy that the military has been vacillating back and forth over whether to encourage people in rural areas to photograph spy-plane-like phenomenon, Possibly including difficulties with the rural people having incentives to forge and sell evidence, which could suddenly become much less of a problem in the late 2010s due to new technology that can handle all sorts of false positives.