Could be either. But 'the serious tattooed look' and 'having the conversation' has only gone so far. After a while you realize that's what he's got. Maybe not all, but all we're going to get. Next contestant please.
Bear in mind Richard Doty really did investigate at least one UFO case under AFOSI and really is a publicly acknowledged intelligence officer of some sort. He was also a state police sergeant and if I remember right, passed the bar somewhere out west. Yet when we see and hear him he talks bullshit, has fashioned himself a movie consultant and had been perpetrating that Project Serpo nonsense. Some swallowed that hook line and sinker. I think it's attention seeking behavior.