@gbraad
Lying on what? As far as I've read they didn't deny the incident, but claimed it to be an accident due to extreme proximity geographical proximity.
All I see in the video is a jet desperately trying to avoid the flying object (even if maybe that almost happened because it was getting too close to it too check what it is).
Planes flying are scared of crashing into birds because of the potential damage, let alone much harder drones.