This reads like a clickhole article omg:
"Guillermo del Toro says he saw a real UFO and it was ‘horribly designed’"
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/23/16814948/guillermo-del-toro-ufo-design
@shel somehow that makes it so much more plausible. "yeah, I've seen a UFO... it looked kinda dumb, actually, so I never told anybody, because they wouldn't believe me anyway and it didn't seem worth the trouble, you know?"