I’m not sure if how anyone could argue that the U.S. government/military never studied the UFO phenomenon, because they had programs that were public
knowledge that did study UFO reports.

This cases identified in your post are from 1968, and in 1968 it was public knowledge that the U.S. Air Force studied the UFO phenomenon in its
Project Blue Book, which was active between 1952 and 1970. Prior to Project Blue Book were other publicly-known Official U.S. Air Force
studies of the UFO phenomenon named Project Grudge and Project Sign.

Granted, there are no current U.S. government UFO studies (at least none that the public know about).

edit on 2017/1/31 by Box of Rain because: (no reason given)