Are you saying you wouldn't find it creepy if you were driving through your average office park in Scunthorpe or Burnley and you saw a building with massive satellite domes on the roof, and swat team with assault rifles guys roaming around outside?
It's not the fact they exist that's creepy but the fact there are thousands of them in office parks and next to burger kings. Like she said "hiding in plain sight".
And I would guess about 30 million people hold a security clearance in the US, but 900,000 have a TOP SECRET clearance.