He just came out this week, but this story just hit the news this week too.
Now, it would make sense that the whistleblower giving attention to the topic, caused the local news to pick up the story, but even this happening a month before the whistleblower coming out is really suspect to me. Even without the whistleblower, going decades without anything close to a sighting as credible as this one and having this happen now, just when the government is acting like it's taking the topic seriously raises flags with me.
If you watch the 7 minute vid the kid posted, there is quite a bit of good evidence provided, especially since we know something did fall from the sky in the direction of their house per the police bodycam. It's not very likely that they made this up on the spot after something just happening to fall from the sky near their house in the middle of the night.