With the shift in government posture and establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/310005...) it will only be a matter of time until more service members come forward with their experiences and enough data is gathered to ascertain the inevitable: these craft are real and we've been visited by nonhuman entities since maybe even the beginning of human existence.
This situation is very complicated, but not at all bad in the end. As far as I can tell, nobody got the real answers, not the pentagon, nor the religions.
Reality may be not as we think.
The new AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) has a Marcus Aurelius quote in Latin on the proposed Logo, used in the presentation slides by the director: "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it".
Maybe they understand more than I thought after all?
Edit: added symbolic
With UFOs getting as much pushback on HN (though this is improving) I would say crossing over into more of the "woo" and esoterics would give many here an instant dismissal on the topic :)