I don't buy this recent explanation on the ships not being the answer.
If this isn't a bunch of made up stuff then the reason that the ships didn't work is because they didn't do anything that Drones can't do. For the most part everything was just hovering in one spot not moving, not doing anything spectacular and not doing anything that Drones are not capable of doing.
I have no doubt that if ET ships did start showing up that the government would try to confuse the situation by sending out lots of real Drones. That is their modus operandi. Confuse the situation with explainable things and thus discredit everything.
Now let's assume that Harvey exists as well as these good ETs . Surely getting disclosure using these ships was not their actual objective because if it had been I assume they would have been intelligent enough to be doing something with the ship's more than hovering in one location for long periods of time.
Certainly if these are not drones than they are capable of Instantaneous acceleration and zipping all around at speeds that are impossible for a drone to do, Go transmedium and fly through a building, fly down outside of sky scrapers or where people can actually see. Hell doing that might even get the military to scramble some jets and then take off faster than the jets can go. Half of that is rather extreme and wouldn't even be necessary. Just simply zipping around going Hypersonic without a signature sonic boom and changing directions would be enough.
Of course though just hovering in one spot and not moving isn't going to attract any serious attention when it's so easy to claim they are Drones. Especially when we live in an age when practically anything can be faked. They have to do something that cannot be faked.
So there would seem to be only a few explanations
1. They didn't really want disclosure with ships.
2. They are not that intelligent.
3. There are other reasons why they could not do more than simply hovering. Although what that would be I don't know.
4. Farsight just got lucky with timing and the whole thing is not true.
Personly I think it's number 1 or 3.
To convince the masses, disclosure needs to be irrefutable.
There is definitely some truth to that. I think even if Trump went on TV for the State of The Union address and said aliens are here and they are among us most people would probably laugh him off.
But I believe what the ships purpose should have been was not to force disclosure but to wake people up. And simply doing something that Drones can do won't wake people up who were not already inclined to believe. Though it did definitely have an effect and got a lot of YouTubers talking. Mostly however they were examining the ships saying they could be a baloon or a drone or Chinese lanterns because they were not doing anything extraordinary at least the majority of them.
Though I'd imagine a lot of good videos were likely suppressed too.
People who believe already believe.
People on the fence will believe when they clearly see large ships.
Fervent skeptics need an ET to slap them in the face to wake them up.
I actually believe big ships may be more effective than an alien.
I believe it may have come from Dr Steven Greer but I've heard that some prominent news sources have directly stated that even if you plopped a dead alien down on their news desk that they would refuse to cover it.
A large ufo circling Atlanta flying over 85 during rush hour or better yet some even larger cities like Lima Peru would not rely on national media getting the story out.
Possibly, but I wonder if some might think a ship is just some secret government tech. For me, seeing an NHI is the ultimate proof. The problem is, many look just like us.