I'm really starting to think that Bungie has some insight on the whole UFO phenomenon. There are subtle hints in the EoF story and they're seemingly running their studio in a more compartmentalized fashion than the legacy reverse engineering of UAP program. It's like no one at the studio talks to eachother. So department A can have this idea that on it's own is cool but when they combine it with what department B cooked up - which on its own may have been cool too - it's simply not working. And then they're not properly testing the full product - or the testers are simply too afraid that men in black will show up if they share their honest opinions.