Many Military UFO Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash (nytimes.com)

I understand the NYT readership is not the most incredulous of groups, but I sincerely hope that all of them understood the plainly obvious fact stated in the headline from the get-go. What kind of idiot thinks that military "unidentified flying objects" during the period of most heightened tensions between world powers since WWII could possibly be anything other than spy games?

I must say that the entire phenomenon of mainstream media covering UFOs seems to me a cynical bait tactic borrowed from media targeting the conspiracy theory/head case crowd.

I never once saw even an inkling of journalistic value around this subject.

This is the simplest, most logical but least interesting explanation of whole UFO phenomenon.