That argument has been used by many skeptics to try and ridicule the UFO phenomenon --just a small bunch of UFO fanboys in the government interested in UFOs and hyping it up. It has popped up on the Fortean Forum and elsewhere.
No one seems to bother looking into the older sightings; it's as if one wants to write a scholarly paper, but hasn't read any of the pertinent literature on the subject or the other academic papers about it. There seem to be a lot of these folks on Metabunk; they seem to only focus on the poor evidence released by the government thus far and attempt to judge the entire phenomenon based on it. And they are losing the battle every day; indeed the battle has already been lost --if they would only look to the past, and stop assuming that every witness is unreliable, they could be more objective. And now, that's exactly what is being proposed --looking to the history of the phenomenon, and creating databases, etc. to notice common patterns in sightings, and noticing that some of the same objects are seen over and over again, over decades.
At this point a sociological study of the very real phenomenon --to better understand the strategy of contact and the tactics being used to implement it, would be useful. I think that AI analysis might help these folks to come around. Seems pretty clear to me --avoiding a tipping point, while we are being observed long-term.
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