Shortly after the release of the "gun camera footage" taken seriously by the New York Times and featured on main stream news such as CNN, a couple from Australia was featured in the UK's Daily Mail for snapping a few pics of their sighting.
On December 25th 2017 main stream media took the UFO field seriously once again. This time they had two very good looking witnesses who seemed, for lack of a better term, cool. It was an attempt by whomever planned this "disclosure" roll out, to make seeing UFOs hip and cool. And to show that beautiful people see them too. Think about the looks of this couple compared the the usual suspects we see on cable TV shows about UFOs. The late comedian Bill Hicks used to joke that maybe alien visit rural places around the world because they have some kind of interstellar dental program.
And really, don't we all want to be hip, cool, and beautiful?
The images they snapped were not very impressive. Rather, they are just more lights in the night sky. Granted, having witnesses describe what they saw in the article makes a more impressive occasion. But, with the close proximity of release time of this article with the apparent gun camera footage from F-18 hornets launched from the US Navy's aircraft carrier Nimitz, it's very publication should give true UFO researchers pause.
Also adding trendy online abbreviations helps sell the trendy and cool aspect here.
But, on the brighter side, lets consider the idea that this subject does become hip and cool. We can count on social media, UFO databases, and alternative news sites to give us confidence that the narrative of UFO Disclosure will remain broad and open.
Conversely, the part of the New York Times article that I found alarming was when former intelligence spook Luis Elizondo claimed he was part of a 21 million dollar US government "threat assessment". So to put the term threat in there immediately to me speaks of an agenda when you consider the billions of dollars the USA spends on defense.
Citations:
'It was definitely a UFO': Couple spot a massive ball of light circling over their home and insist it WASN'T a plane or a drone – so what do you think it is?
Emily Pidgeon For Daily Mail Australia - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5212217/Woman-spots-mysterious-light-flashing-Queensland-sky.html
'UFO' caught on video flying through Coast skies
Matty Holdsworth - https://www.baysidestarnews.com.au/news/ufo-caught-on-video-flying-through-coast-skies/3298400/