I've discussed this at length in the past on here and I'm too lazy to dig it up. Here's the long and the short of it: 1) The Navy has been pushing an integrated sensor suite/fleet management system since the mid '90s which had the ability to put objects detected by AWACS or surface sensors on the HUDs of aircraft in flight 2) That suite generated artifacts 3) There's some research that needs to be done in order to eliminate spoofing/EW interference that can't be done in an entirely clandestine way 4) ALIENS Whenever you see the government slinging weird shit into the spotlight it's because there's a bunch of shit in the shadows that they can't figure out without shining a light on it. Pretty much every bit of discussion, study, information or analysis around UAPs is some form of "our sensors are giving us funny data" and "sensors giving funny data" is just another way of saying "jamming."