Are UFOs real?

It seems to me most governments go way out of their way to disprove anything that might be considered a UFO.

Why is this?

Let's imagine that you were say, Saudi Arabia and water and air travel did not exist. So, if people from the U.S. came over in planes that Saudi Arabian people hadn't seen before but usually didn't land because they didn't want to interfere with the cultural development of that area.

If the government found out about people seeing UFOs they might have to make sure no one believed in them too.

Why?

Because these aircraft or UFOs didn't fit into their religion or their cultural world view.

So, likewise when the U.S. (being very Christian) especially in 1949, did not want to recognize these UFOS (at least publicly) because it might collapse the Christian world and collapse all religions on earth. (This is one of the real reasons).

Second, if you saw technology 1000 to 5000 years in advance of anything in the 1940s or 1950s you might get sort of discouraged with your own technology here on earth.

So, to keep people being Christian (or whatever religion) and to keep people productive with lower levels of technolog, UFOs were denied and people were killed or disappeared in a major way at least until the Soviet Union Collapsed. Then talking about UFOs that you had just experienced was less of a death sentence than before (or at least it was less likely to destroy your career and family).

So, most people who have had real experiences don't talk about them much until they are retired. Because they don't want people to be stupid but they also want to be able to make a living until then.