The lack of verifiable photographic evidence from the general public despite the widespread use of high-resolution smartphone cameras suggests that these phenomena are not evidence of extraterrestrial

“More than a billion high resolution photos >> are uploaded to the internet every day that people obtain with their smartphones around the world. So it seems to me if there were aliens visiting us, it would be crowdsourced without your prompting.”

The label UAP was adopted because the term UFO had become associated with extraterrestrials in the public mind, creating a bias that complicates the government's investigation process.

“essentially the public took over the term UFO and made it synonymous with extraterrestrials. And for us in the government that becomes problematic because the definition sort of supposed to be in the name unidentified and anomalous. We don't know what it is.”