Years ago, I asked my dad if he had seen any UFO's when he was in the navy.
He said they saw them all the time and had been told by their captain...... to ignore them, which I found strange.
and yes, I did have a personal reason for asking him....I had seen one too, only it didnt look anything like what other people had been saying they looked like. As I had been seriously stoned at the time, I decided that that thankfully, disqualified me as a real eyewitness, so I didnt need to say anything about it at the time, or for decades.