I thought all the "experts" here had weighed in and determined that the "drone" images were "CGI."

With that fact in mind, perhaps the motivation behind the recent upswing in coverage by the MSM, besides selling newspapers, is meant to eventually undermine the "disclosure" movement when the "facts" are later revealed.

Not unlike the the recent media frenzy over the "figure on Mars" that had already been "debunked" here on ATS as a small rock.

They must have known that was the case before they hyped the image.

So what's their angle?

It seems that term "expert" and "authority" are very much relative things.

I just find it hard to believe that through out all recorded history we've managed to perpetuate a UFO hoax (in contradiction to religion) the for all these thousands of years now. But at the same time we can't even agree on religion or even not to kill each other over it as well as other petty things in life. But somehow, just somehow, we seem to manage to describe all the same things more or less on the UFO subject, from cave paintings to digital video to witness accounts.