Bigelow has been a ufo crank for ages, and as he's a billionaire that's buddies with a senator was able to arrange for pentagon funding for some of his crank friends. That went about as well as expected. After they lost that revenue source, they befriended the blink182 guy to keep going. They're just hoping they'll get another pentagon handout. For all their bluster when asked to put up or shut up they've got nothing.
The actual footage and pilot accounts are consistent with submarine launched weather balloons, halo artifacts on IRST systems, and similar banal explanations.
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An example video of how the tic tac's motion is consistent with gimbal motion, not an actual object rotating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Btns91W5J8
And Tyler is sometimes problematic, but here he mentions his sources: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...