Interesting question—and a fair one.
My personal take? If there is something out there (call it UFOs, UAPs, or whatever term is fashionable this year), it likely operates in stealth mode unless it wants to be seen. The assumption that “more cameras = more proof” only works if whatever is being observed behaves like us. That may be a faulty assumption.
There are exceptions.
Take Roswell, shortly after WWII. My father flew with the same Army Air Corps bomb group that later ended up stationed at Roswell. That period wasn’t random—this was ground zero for atomic weapons development. If you were an outside observer, that’s exactly where your attention would go.
During the war, B-29 crews (including my father on bombing runs over Tokyo) reported what they called “Foo Fighters”—luminous orbs pacing aircraft, maneuvering in ways no known technology could match at the time. These weren’t one-off sightings—they were reported by multiple crews, across missions, and documented.
Fast forward: you have the well-known Roswell recovery, which—depending on how deep you dig—is far more complex than the old “weather balloon” explanation.
Then there are large-scale sightings, like the incident in Brazil (Varginha), where hundreds of witnesses reported events, followed by rapid response from military and reportedly U.S. personnel. That one didn’t happen in a vacuum.
And more recently, you’ve got U.S. Navy pilots on record—under oath before Congress—describing encounters with craft that outperformed anything in our inventory. These aren’t random internet posts; these are trained observers with radar, FLIR, and multiple sensor confirmations.
So is there “proof”? That depends on what standard you’re using.
If you’re waiting for a press conference with a landed craft on display—no, we’re not there.
But if you’re willing to look at consistent patterns, credible witnesses, declassified reports, and decades of similar observations… the evidence is there.
You just have to be willing to dig a little deeper than the headlines.
Or put another way: the proof isn’t missing—it’s just not being handed to you on a silver platter.