Either it's shoot first and ask questions later…

…or there's something they haven't been telling us. Reluctantly I'm beginning to wonder if the latter might be true. From NBC:

White House announces interagency team to address 'unidentified aerial objects'

This is serious stuff: It's increasingly difficult to sort through all the questions that have come up unanswered in recent years, and even more difficult to believe the stories — narratives, in the popular argot — surrounding them. (That situation was addressed earlier this month in a Wall Street Journal article, 

A Balloon Pops D.C.’s Myth Bubble.)

If you can't trust the people who are supposed to be trusted…

Occam's razor suggests the simplest explanation is most likely to be the correct one, so then a series of random occurrences that just happen to…yeah, that's getting a little hard to swallow, isn't it.