https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videosWhat to make of this now? There's been no suggestion there's something mystical or magical going on, that the phenomenon isn't technological and either of alien origin or resulting from glitches and shortcomings in our technology.
If it is alien it's pretty cool. They must have inertial dampeners to be able to accelerate suddenly up to what some estimate is 60000 MPH and stop just as suddenly apparently without turning pilots/passengers into a thin pasty film on a 'Tic Tac's' bulkheads. This suggests an ability to manipulate gravity.
I'm curious about their politics and what we might be able to speculate given what we do know about them. They don't seem to be too strictly bound by a Prime Directive given they've revealed themselves to us. At the very least they've been careless about being seen or they simply don't care. Why they're here could be motivated by many things but the fact we're here is probably quite important. We've been making enough radio noise for long enough now that there's an expanding sphere of radio noise nearly 300 light years across containing almost 6000 stars. Given our discoveries of exoplanets and inferring that every star has at least one planet we can't rule out the possibility we revealed ourselves to them first - there have been scientists who've expressed concern that we've been careless about that but what's done is done.
I wonder what they think of us? Are we merely interesting from their scientific view or are we perhaps threatening in some way? We're an interstellar species now, we've sent our signature and our spacecraft beyond our own solar system. That could have political and perhaps military implications for other species and civilizations around us. Perhaps we're technologically advanced enough that we can't and shouldn't be left alone. The differences in types of 'craft' is interesting too, perhaps they represent different factions or countries from one alien society or there could be several species visiting and studying us. Perhaps we have our supporters and detractors amongst them struggling with moral and ethical issues raised by our emergence on the interstellar scene. Are they here to save us from ourselves or themselves from us? Given our history the most graphic of which is probably as available to them as us thru our transmissions it could be we represent what a quintessential monster from outer space looks like. Invasive, militaristic, expansionary, venal, amoral etc etc. It probably doesn't help many of our religions and nations few themselves as chosen being's with a divine centric view of the right to be complete
**** towards others. But then perhaps our supporters see something better and more noble that's worth saving and valuing.
I always preferred science fiction over fantasy, was fascinated by our space endeavours and astronomical discoveries. I have a telescope and love looking out there. I wish I could live long enough to see how thigs turn out.