re: Looks like a hoax or ruse to me
There are photos, eyewitness accounts, trace cases and thousands of sealed military documents worldwide.
You can't capture lightening or a tornado either, but at least we know what causes them.
I believe they should be called what I named them ......"UNP's".
Unidentified Natural Phenomenon.
They appear to have sort of intelligence although it is abstract or even absurd to us. Communications appeared to have happened, but my favorites are the channeled messages from Kroton or the Plegarans (pick one), so I can ruse on fantasy for a while.