Whoa - hold it right there.
While I find your faith in military research science (with a virtually unlimited budget) heart-warming, I think you're carrying the notion to an unsupportable extreme that encroaches on Corey Goode territory here. There are all kinds of things that our military would like to have, which remain far beyond terrestrial technological capabilities. Things like human teleportation, traversable wormholes, time machines, and warp drive.
The Tic-Tac exhibits the precise performance characteristics that our theoretical models predict for warp drive aka gravitational field propulsion. But this is true of AAV reports going back at least 70 years. And in that time, all of the eggheads in all of universities around the world have failed utterly to posit even a glimmer of how this kind of technology can be achieved in physical applications. In fact we plebes out here in the public sector have yet to produce even the most modestly detectable gravitational field under laboratory conditions. A few years ago a physicist published a paper about how we might be able to generate a very modestly detectable (via laser interferometry) gravitational field, but its cost would be on the order of the Large Hadron Collider, and it isn't expected to illuminate any new physics, so it hasn't been funded and probably won't be.
I think it's very safe to say that the UFOs/AAVs reported in the 40s and 50s weren't military research projects - we didn't even have a formal theoretical model for gravitational field propulsion back then; but those craft were exhibiting those flight capabilities back then. So we're being visited by nonterrestrial technology, and have been for at least several decades. Given that, it seems far more likely that the Tic-Tac craft come from elsewhere, rather some project here at home. I would love to think that we could build something like that - it would mean that A.) we've completely mastered gravitational technology somewhere in a black budget project and B.) we now have the technological capability for manned missions to other star systems, and probably C.) the solution to the energy crisis and global warming as Spaceman spiff mentioned.
I just can't believe that our military developed an entirely new and radically powerful form of technology at least 70 years ago, and yet we haven't seen the first hint of it yet in the public sector. Even if we blithely disregard the countless reports going back to the late 40s and beyond, and just try to explain the Tic-Tac incidents as secret research projects, it strains credulity to imagine the military making all of the Nobel Prize-level advancements that would be required, and building an entirely secret massive technological infrastructure to produce a Tic-Tac, and keep all of that totally under wraps for the many decades required to build up to a device with these capabilities.
At some point, the extraterrestrial hypothesis is simply more likely than the Secret Space Program hypothesis, and I think the Tic-Tac is well past that point. Though like I said,
I wish that I could believe that humans built that thing. But I just can't: that thing makes our most advanced jet interceptors look like paper airplanes by comparison.
Yes, it is less likely that the military has been engineering UFOs since at least the 1940s that can radically outperform today's most advanced jets, and easily traverse the stars (with the gravitational field propulsion technology exhibited by these craft, one could easily hop the expanse to other stars - it's the perfect solution for rapid manned interstellar spaceflight). So if you can believe that we have this kind of tech, then Corey Goode's story is completely plausible. I just can't make that kind of leap based on nothing more than blind faith that the military could advance human tech by several centuries or even millennia or more, and somehow keep every bit of it completely secret for 70+ years. If they were that good, why not keep the semiconductor revolution a secret? Imagine the advantage they'd have if they were the only ones with computers while the rest of us were running out to buy the latest vacuum tubes.
And any arguments about "purpose" are counterfactual and therefore worthless. We have no idea what purpose is behind the operations of these craft. But given that the technology represents a supreme triumph of logic and method, I think it's safe to safe that their purpose is very logical as well, whatever it may be. Aimlessness seems highly unlikely.
Apparently they've been encountered all over the globe amid a variety of circumstances. Here’s the transcript of the relevant excerpt from Keith Basterfield’s notes:
Dr. Davis: “…these tic tacs have been seen off the coast of Virginia interacting with F/A 18 fighters operating at the Naval Air Station there, and they have been encountered in the Middle East and parts of Asia where the US military aviators continue to encounter them. The tic tac wasn’t a one off phenomenon with the Nimitz. Its ongoing. We have Air Force pilots that have come to the Navy investigators of the tic tac encounter with the Nimitz, who have come forward and talked about their encounters, close encounters with such craft, on military operations of flights and that just didn’t report them up the chain of command because to do so would possibly require a psychological evaluation…”
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I think it's also disingenuous to describe their activity this way: "weave and bob." That's not an accurate description at all. They were seen dropping down from above 80K ft to 28K ft at some absurd hypersonic velocity, then moving in formation at 100 knots on a linear southerly course, again and again, for several days before the ADEX began. They only exhibited dramatic (and highly effective) evasive maneuvers when we interfered with their mission. Then they went right back to what they were doing - making a bee-line south. I wish we know where they ended up and what they did when they got there - whatever it was must've been important to send at least 10-20 squadrons of 5-10 craft (a total of 100+ targets were seen on radar doing the same thing over the course of that week). Who knows, maybe they're building an underwater base.