Ahhh, I see. So 72 UFO's in 6 days is NORMAL for easy mode? Wow.
My best guess at this point is that the campaign isn't really tested very well - or at least not tested on easy/standard. But hey, I've wasted about 10 hours on it and have decided it's just not worth the time. For a game that is supposed to be "like Xcom" it's awfully different. I didn't expect an exact clone (obviously) but this is just not the game I thought it was.