When the news broke a couple of years ago about the UFOs sighted by the US navy around 2004 from the Nimitz etc, the US military stated whatever the objects were, they appeared to be under intelligent control. The objects were performing beyond US technology or even technical understanding, in as far as they were faster, more manouvreable and able to travel through air and water. This would be generations of tech and science in advance of anything known by the West.
It was speculated in the media that the objects were Chinese or Russian, despite there being no evidence that either nation had made such breakthroughs in numerous fields.
Bearing in mind objects like this have been reported and denied for 70 years, people that follow these matters were curious that an acknowledgement of the reality of the UFO/UAP phenomenon had come out now, and it was questioned, 'WHY now'?
If the objects were Russian we'd have seen the tech in the Ukraine.
If the objects were Chinese, would China be sending balloons with cameras to spy on the US?
Speculation has been that we were being prepared for something imminent that the US (and other governments) knew about that was coming and couldn't be avoided.
Or they have decided that the secret was going to come out and to take control of how it happens in order to avoid admitting they've known about it for 70 years. One way of doing this would be to 'find' or shoot down a UFO now and then say 'Oh wow, we had no idea.'
I don't know if now is the time that this is all going to come out but there's something odd going on.