As I said to another commenter, I'm not discounting the possibility of this being human tech. But, wouldn't adversaries need other ships or satellites to launch this holographic plasma from, and wouldn't we have tracked those before seeing the tic-tac (or other unidentified craft) on radar?
Many reports are actually happening over the United States airspace. How could the military not track the planes the plasmas are being launched from being over our airspace? And suppose this is Chinese tech over our airspace - HOW IS THAT NOT A HUGE STORY? The blimp is the perfect example - if this stuff was Chinese, it would be a huge story.
It's classified US technology, obviously. That's why it mostly appears near military installations that have significant power production capabilities (things like nuclear aircraft carriers, possible nuclear submarines).
The fact that the military isn't investigating it implies to me that they already know what is it. Now why they're letting pilots talk about it on the Joe Rogan experience I don't know, but whether that was a simple mistake or they just felt like not keeping those pilots in the loop at all was better, well that's not unexplainable.
So yeah, ground based plasma hologram projection is a specific, real, technology that can produce results that match the description of the UFOs. I'm not speculating here, all the data I've seen has matched the description of a ball of plasma and these systems can make balls of plasma appear in mid-air at any location you want, at any speed and with any flight characteristics.
Once you know what technology has been used to make the "UFOs" the rest is pretty easy.
Let's take this hypothesis and run with it. What you're saying is there's a faction of the government that is fucking with our military operations and endangering our pilots. How is this not headline news? How is this not a problem?
I presume if they got to this point they're pretty sure it's not endangering anyone, and there's no reason to believe those pilots immediate CO wasn't informed. Live tests on unaware aircraft are an obvious thing to do with your super cool new sensor blinding technology. I'd presume that there are other pilots or are aware and that this was a limited test with someone not in the know.
Lue Elizondo did far more than run AATIP. His primary job at the DoD was to prevent leaks from the Special Access Programs that contained the classified technology that would be working on what you claim UFOs are. I can link you to his IG complaint where it contains his performance report that outlined his official duties at the DoD if you'd like.
I find it hard to believe that the man whose job was to prevent the leaking of US classified technology would not know that these UFOs were just classified tech.
If his job was to prevent leaks from the Special Access Programs, wouldn't he absolutely say that these "objects" weren't classified tech? Like, it's literally his job to say it's not us!
https://www.google.com/search?q=tangible+holographic+plasma
That's certainly no natural phenomenon!