I also think something a lot of people do not understand is that the military routinely runs false flag operations. This is one reason I've been so highly skeptical of the recent congressional hearings. As far as I'm aware, every encounter is at best testified via second hand. Has anyone that has testified claimed to see "biologicals" themselves, or just that they heard or read about it? In the latter, we can't trust in that setting (though it would warrant more investigation).
They run these operations for several reasons. One is simply stupidity. Someone in the military might just believe remote viewing is possible and give funding. Another is to generate noise. When spies steal data, how do they know if those data and reports are genuine? It wouldn't be the first time a military got an adversary to waste countless time and money on futile pursuits. Another is simply to create a black op. You can't pour money into nothing, so you pour it into something else. These again usually use noise because when someone comes looking for that money you want to take them on a wild goose chase. The US Military has had access to the Alien story for 75+ years now and lots of people have built "evidence" around that story and many __want__ to believe in that story. I mean it is the conspiracy theory person's wet dream, that what appears complicated is actually very simple because ̶o̶m̶n̶i̶p̶o̶t̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶m̶n̶i̶s̶c̶i̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶z̶a̶r̶d̶s̶ "the government" did it and the world is simple again and all is right. Spooks also love this kind of simplification, as we all do. Our monkey brains are satisfied when we have no more to dig into and "just know" (it's also why we confidently talk out our asses on places like this site about things we have no remote qualification to discuss). But it doesn't require stupidity to create all this noise, nor does it require 4D chess. It just requires time, chaos, and many different actors with many different unknown agendas (which would still requisite digging into to learn more, not stopping at this explanation).
So idk if the government is recklessly spending money or they understand that this is a useful false flag, or if they just don't care in even determining the difference anymore because either way it seems useful to the end goals.