Got a better source? Like, anything with actual journalism cred?
The story off the top is unlikely as hell. So supposedly these crafts are crashing all over. And the USA is recovering some...and Russia is recovering some....and China is recovering some....but what about the ones that crash in, say, Serbia? Or Ecuador? Or Mali? Or Thailand? Who keeps them from being exposed? Even the ones that crash in the USA, how do they get to them in time without them being exposed?
More reputable:
A whistleblower on the Pentagon’s UFO investigation team claims there is evidence of “intact” alien vehicles being hidden from lawmakers.
nymag.com
It's worth noting that the authors from the Debrief post
previously worked for the NYT and published their popular UFO/UAP article in 2017. So they were vetted as the real-deal Holyfield back in the day to be w/ NYT. It's possible that they just got stuck in a rabbit hole since then, but I'll hear them out personally
According to that site's story, not only is the USA engaged in a coverup, but every government across the world is managing to cover up conclusive proof of aliens that are appearing all over the planet at random, unpredictable times.
I wouldn't necessarily say a global cover-up, but I do think that many (all?) investigations into UFOs/UAPs loop in governmental agencies at some point, and at the least, I don't expect them to throw their hands up and publicly state "We don't know what it is" and set off a panic within their country, and so basically, there was possibly times they called it a 'weather balloon' to quell fears. If 999/1000 are fake, that 0.001 of the time adds up over the decades + countries.
It doesn't pass the smell test for me. My best guess is that it's a completely manufactured story, front to back. Second best guess is it's one lone goofy wolf.
I think you are in the top percentile of informed posters on the site but I do want to point out how much of a black swan event this could/would be, and w/ most black swan events, prior understanding, experiences and probabilities all become moot and need to be reconfigured to account for new data. Not to say that the official is stating facts necessarily, but just to objectively point out that we have moved away from doctored images/crackpot social media territory when news sources and high ranking military officials speak up, and so we should slow down the desire to discredit.
Maybe this is a better way of framing things... I'm sure governmental agencies have a Standard Operating Procedure in place for the
extremely remote possibility that they come across extra-terrestrial artifacts. I cannot expect that 'informing the public' is a high-ranking possibility on any country's list given the impact that it would have on our relations w/ other countries, let alone our own citizens.