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Let's think of it this way.
Do the people testifying regarding aliens actually benefit if they were to be believed?
For most crop circle chasers, the answer is yes - of course they do. Fame, interviews, etc.
For senators, military personnel? Not really. Trying to explain why you're spending congressional budget on chasing little green men that gets laughed out of the discussion has very few benefits unless you have a proportional evidence to it. This could be a case of the congressman being a dumb fucking idiot, but with this many sightings, this many reports, this many servicemen risking psyche evaluations, it's hard to dismiss it as nothing.
That brings us to two possibilities:
1 - They're lying. This means that there being aliens would somehow benefit the US - the strength to this argument is that other countries aren't talking about this out in the public.
2 - they really do think we have aliens on the planet, whether it's actually an unexplained phenomena or the evidence is really there.
There is an option 3 - aliens, as a subject, has become a meme convergence point: when servicemen and equipment operators think about fucking with pilots and such, creating elaborate alien movement on the radar signature/camera is the default because it's a popular meme point in the public consciousness. Because it already exists as a meme, it is then self-reinforced when people think of a way to act out a meme. This is why these reports converge on aliens, as opposed to a plethora of other equipment anomalies. It could also be that out of all the equipment anomalies, only the ones related to aliens are reported due to the meme giving specific kinds of malfunction relevance.
I'd like to think malfunctions aren't that easy and frequent though.
