So is it a secret all governments and all fighter pilots worldwide are keeping? And if so why are they still keeping this secret when there are seemingly no consequences in leaking top secret information about the most significant discovery in human history to the media?

Of course, the alternative here is that just a select few US fighter pilots have experienced sightings like this. And that might make sense because if that's was case then presumably the US government doesn't have indisputable proof that these sightings are extra terrestrial in nature at all, so there is no top secret UFO reports. That would explain why these pilots are free to share their BS about aliens to the press, but it would be unproven BS, and not some top secret government cover up.

But seeing as you believe it is a government cover up, do you believe SETI and other orgs looking for ET life are a psyops or just extremely incompetent compared to fighter pilots?

And why is it always US fighter jet pilots making these claims anyway? Has any passenger onboard all of the commercial Boeing 747 flights ever made a tictac observation? And for that matter has any Boeing 747 pilot ever made these observations? Has any air traffic control operator ever seen anything suspicious on their monitoring systems, or do the aliens just like trolling the US military specifically?

Am I crazy, or do you honestly not see how none of this makes sense if you're thinking about it from a reasonable standpoint? I understand there could potentially be an explanation for all of this but you really have to do mental gymnastics for any of it to make sense.