> the government's own investigations have consistently come to the conclusion that no extraterrestrial or physics-defying technologies are involved
I'm not sure if you've looked into the government's self investigations in the 70s regarding claims the CIA was experiment on their own populace where they also found no evidence. But 20 years later the CIA declassified those documents to show the CIA absolutely was dosing cities with LSD in the water supply.
My point being, the Department of Defense investigating itself is like letting a murderer run his own investigation.
Yes, I'm aware of MKULTRA. Everyone is aware of MKULTRA.
But the Department of Defense investigating this phenomenon is the only basis the UFO community has for considering any of the UAP/UFO stuff credible. It's why they trust David Grusch, because, as they claim, no one would just go in front of Congress and tell lies (or in Grusch's case, because he has no actual firsthand knowledge of anything, repeat someone else's lies.)
You can't have it both ways. You can't say this is real because the government is looking into it, and that the government can't be trusted with its findings.
The government/DoD isn't a single entity. Especially when it comes to waived, bigoted special access programs where only a handful of people will even know the programs exist. So just because one person says "oh we don't have any evidence of these programs" doesn't mean they actually know. It just means they haven't been read in.
I'm not sure if you've looked into the government's self investigations in the 70s regarding claims the CIA was experiment on their own populace where they also found no evidence. But 20 years later the CIA declassified those documents to show the CIA absolutely was dosing cities with LSD in the water supply.
My point being, the Department of Defense investigating itself is like letting a murderer run his own investigation.